Kaori Oda
- Directing
- Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Masayume · Cinematography
- Jibun, Maru! Ippo no Hanashi · Cinematography
- In Their Traces · Cinematography
- A Very Straight Neck · Cinematography
- GAMA · Director
- Underground · Director, Cinematography
- FUKUSHIMA with BÉLA TARR · Director, Cinematography
- Recording with Mother "Working Hands" · Director
- By the Sea · Director
- Kandachime · Director
- Black Red Ultramarine White Lemon · Director
- Lighthouse · Director, Cinematography
- Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus · Camera Operator
- Karaoke Cafe BOSA · Director, Cinematography
- Would You Like to Go to the Cinema Today? · Director
- Homo Mobilitas · Director
- Night Train · Director
- My Love: Six Stories of True Love · Cinematography
- colere-ON: Sep 27 - Oct 5 · Director
- Cenote · Cinematography, Director
- Night Cruise · Director
- Church of the Wind · Director
- TUNE · Director
- Aragane · Cinematography, Editing
- Toward a Common Tenderness · Self, Director
- Theory of Colours: prologue · Director, Cinematography
- TEN · Director
- It Could Be a Film · Cinematography
- FLASH · Director, Cinematography
- Lost in Bosnia · Writer, Director
- Conniving · Director, Writer
- Thus a Noise Speaks · Director, Writer
- The Thread of Red Cocoons · Director, Writer