Kaori Oda

Kaori Oda, born in Osaka, Japan in 1987, is a filmmaker and artist. In 2016, she completed a Doctor of Liberal Arts in filmmaking in Sarajevo, supervised by Béla Tarr. Aragane (2015), shot in a Bosnian coal mine, premiered at Yamagata International Film Festival. Toward a Common Tenderness (2017) had its world premiere at DOK Leipzig and TS’ONOT / Cenote (2019), shot in underwater caves in Yucatán, premiered in Rotterdam. GAMA (2023) screened at MoMA Doc Fortnight and Cinéma du Réel. Oda received the Nagisa Oshima Prize in 2020 and the New Face Award of the Japanese Education Minister in 2021.
Crew

Would You Like to Go to the Cinema Today?
Director

Church of the Wind
Director

Aragane
Editor, Director of Photography, Director

GAMA
Director

Karaoke Cafe BOSA
Director, Cinematography, Sound, Editor

Night Train
Director

Homo Mobilitas
Director

colere-ON: Sep 27 - Oct 5
Director

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus
Camera Operator

Toward a Common Tenderness
Director, Sound, Writer, Editor, Cinematography

Lost in Bosnia
Writer, Director

Underground
Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Writer

Cenote
Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Editor, Producer

Night Cruise
Director

Theory of Colours: prologue
Cinematography, Editor, Director

TEN
Director

FLASH
Cinematography, Director

Conniving
Director, Cinematography, Editor, Writer

The Thread of Red Cocoons
Director, Writer, Editor

TUNE
Director

Thus a Noise Speaks
Sound Mixer, Camera Operator, Director, Editor, Sound Editor, Writer

FUKUSHIMA with BÉLA TARR
Director, Director of Photography, Editor
Kandachime
Director

Black Red Ultramarine White Lemon
Director
By the Sea
Director

Lighthouse
Director, Director of Photography, Editor

Recording with Mother "Working Hands"
Director

A Very Straight Neck
Director of Photography

In Their Traces
Cinematography

Jibun, Maru! Ippo no Hanashi
Cinematography

Masayume
Cinematography