Kaori Oda Movies

"Ars longa, vita brevis" – art is long, life is short. This is one of Japanese music icon Ryuichi Sakamoto's favorite quotes, and the message...

Cenotes—sources of water that in ancient Mayan civilization were said to connect the real world and the afterlife. The past and present of the...

A shadow reveals its form from the darkness underground. It communicates with a woman's consciousness, and she begins to see fragmentary memories...

A woman descends into a surreal odyssey of fragmented memories after waking with excruciating neck pain.

A storyteller of peace serves as a guide in the “Gama”—natural caves where many local people lost their lives during the Battle of...

An omnibus movie produced to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Motomachi Eigakan.

Miners in a Bosnian coal mine. The camera silently watches over the miners working tirelessly amidst endless noise and the flickering light of...

8mm short shot at night from the Osaka bay where the river flows into the sea

A short film about the "hand" that connect our world and the other side, under the background of "Matsuage" in Kyoto.

In a train from Sarajevo to Zagreb, looking at the landscape of the foreign country from a window, I somehow felt nostalgic and a question crossed my...

The experiment presents a cinematic poem to filmmaking and film itself. Directed by eleven filmmakers, all under the vision of Bela Tarr's...

Karaoke Cafe BOSA is located in the suburbs of Osaka. It’s a place where elderly neighbors gather to chat and sing. The film captures BOSA in...

Recorded the restoration work done for the reopening of Tadao Ando's "Chapel of the Wind" in Rokko, Kobe. It tells the length of time by showing the...

A train runs at night. Goldfish float in passenger’s dreams.

Moments in the life of a young Japanese filmmaker in Bosnia, charged with acoustic and visual poetry. Buoyant and essayistic entries in a process of...

A cowherd, sheep, and the wind, all have an equal presence in the village. Death and life are one and indivisible.

A moving image work from director Kaori Oda.