Kaori Oda
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2026
- Masayume ... (Cinematography)
2025
- GAMA ... (Director)
- FUKUSHIMA with BÉLA TARR
- Underground ... (Director)
- A Very Straight Neck ... (Director of Photography)
- In Their Traces ... (Cinematography)
- Recording with Mother "Working Hands" ... (Director)
- Jibun, Maru! Ippo no Hanashi ... (Cinematography)
2024
- Lighthouse ... (Director)
- Black Red Ultramarine White Lemon ... (Director)
- Kandachime ... (Director)
- By the Sea ... (Director)
2023
- Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus ... (Camera Operator)
2022
- Would You Like to Go to the Cinema Today? ... (Director)
- Karaoke Cafe BOSA ... (Director)
- Homo Mobilitas ... (Director)
2021
- My Love: Six Stories of True Love ... (Cinematography)
- Night Train ... (Director)
- colere-ON: Sep 27 - Oct 5 ... (Director)
2020
- Cenote ... (Director of Photography)
2019
- Night Cruise ... (Director)
2018
- TUNE ... (Director)
- Church of the Wind ... (Director)
2017
- Aragane ... (Director of Photography)
- Toward a Common Tenderness as Herself
- TEN ... (Director)
- Theory of Colours: prologue ... (Director)
2016
- It Could Be a Film ... (Director of Photography)
2015
- FLASH ... (Director)
2014
- Lost in Bosnia ... (Writer)
- Conniving ... (Director)
2012
- Thus a Noise Speaks
- The Thread of Red Cocoons ... (Director)