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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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