Kaori Oda
Kaori Oda (B. Osaka, 1987) is an artists and filmmaker whose works explore the memories of human beings.
She lived in Sarajevo for three years from 2013 and completed the Doctor of Liberal Arts in filmmaking under the supervision of Bela Tarr in 2016. Her first feature, Aragane (2015) shot in a Bosnian coal mine, had its World Premiere at Yamagata International Film Festival and received Special Mention. Her second feature, Toward A Common Tenderness (2017) a poetic film research, had its World Premiere at DOK Leipzig and TS’ONOT/Cenote (2019) shot in underwater caves in Yucatan Mex-ico, was premiered in Bright Future section at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020. Her latest middle length film GAMA(2023) have been screened at MoMA Docfortnight, Cinéma du Réel and Festival du ciné-ma de Brive(Jury SFCC de la Critique). She received the Inaugural Nagisa Oshima Prize in 2020 and the new face award of Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts in 2021.
Filmography
Lighthouse (2024), GAMA (2023), Homo Mobilitas (2022), Karaoke Cafe BOSA (2022), Night Train (2021), Water Scape (2021), OUR CINEMAS (2020), Cenote (2019), Night Cruise (2019), Wind Church (2019), TUNE (2018), Toward A Common Tenderness (2017), Cine nouveau 20th Anniversary Project (2017), TEN (2017), Theory of Colours: prologue (2017), Aragane (2015), FLASH (2015), Ko Oh (2014), The Thread of Red Cocoons (2012), Thus A Noise Speaks (2010)