Oda Kaori (b. 1987, Osaka) is a filmmaker and artist whose work explores human memory through image and sound. She completed a Doctor of Liberal Arts in filmmaking under Béla Tarr in 2016. Her films Aragane, Toward A Common Tenderness and Cenote premiered at major festivals including Yamagata, DOK Leipzig and IFFR. She received the inaugural Nagisa Oshima Prize (2020) and Japan's Minister of Education New Face Award for Fine Arts (2021).
Thus A Noise Speaks
Thus A Noise Speaks
Thus A Noise Speaks
Synopsis
When Kacchi came back home for summer break from abroad, they came out to her family as a sexual minority. Their mother and father couldn’t take it and answered in negative. Though Kacchi had depression due to parent's reactions, They decided to face her family again through filmmaking about the ‘coming-out’.
Director's Profile
ODA Kaori
Filmography
2010 Thus A Noise Speaks
2011 The Wanderer
2012 The Thread of Red Cocoons
2014 Conniving
2014 Lost in Bosnia
2015 Flash
2015Aragane
2017 Toward A Common Tenderness
2017 Theory of Colours: Prologue
2017 Ten
2018 Tune
2018 Wind Church
2019 Cenote
2019 Night Cruise
2021 Night Train
2022 Karaoke Cafe BOSA
2023 GAMA
2024 Underground
2025 Recording with Mother 'Working Hands'
