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,...

The "shadow" begins to see fragmented memories that transcend time and place. In an underground, it touches and listens carefully to the memories of...

This film documents the "FUKUSHIMA with Béla Tarr", a filmmaking workshop in Fukushima conducted by esteemed Hungarian filmmaker Tarr...

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...

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

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...

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 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.

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

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

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

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...

When Kacchi came back home for summer break from abroad, she came out to her family as a homosexual. Her mother and father couldn't take it and...

A moving image work from director Kaori Oda.

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...

“Light and darkness, brightness and obscurity, or if a more general expression is preferred, light and its absence, are necessary to the...

A moving image work from Kaori Oda, inspired by the film "Desperate Man Blues".