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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

A moving image work from director Kaori Oda.

After her mother’s death, Nao retreats to a Zen temple to wrestle with grief. Blending family archives, hand-drawn animation and performance...

"My goal is not education, but liberation." In February 2024, a filmmaking workshop takes place in Fukushima under the guidance of the Hungarian...

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

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

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

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

A letter to a memory. /But then, /What is the lived time of a memory? /Memory preserves past. /And memory creates present. /Memories create sites....

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

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...

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...