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 moving image work from director Kaori Oda.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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

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