Movies: Kaori Oda

“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 that he leaves for viewers at the end of his final concert film, shot before he succumbed to cancer in March...

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 people living in and around them intersect, and distant memories echo throughout immersive scenes of light ...

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

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

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

A storyteller of peace serves as a guide in the “Gama”—natural caves where many local people lost their lives during the Battle of Okinawa. The woman in blue standing by his side represents the intersection of the present and the past....

The experiment presents a cinematic poem to filmmaking and film itself. Directed by eleven filmmakers, all under the vision of Bela Tarr's 'film.factory', delving into what keeps us making films....

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 mold and moss that eroded the concrete. When the closed door is opened, the stopped time starts flowi...

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 self- and world-reassurance....

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

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 answered in negative. Though Kacchi had a depression for their reactions, she decided to face her family a...

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

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....

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 these days of unrest as a time capsule of the Anthropocene....

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

Old 8mm family film and images of fireworks combined together....