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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Sexual abuse has been characterized as a “murder of the spirit.” But is this a suffering that one person must bear alone? Beyond despair,...

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

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

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

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

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

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