Karaoke Cafe BOSA

Karaoke Cafe BOSA

小田香ODA Kaori
2022
  • Japan
13min
Colour
  • Digital

Karaoke Cafe BOSA

Synopsis

Karaoke Cafe BOSA is located in the suburbs of Osaka, Japan. It's a place where elderly neighbors gather to chat and sing. Cafe BOSA leaves traces in these days of unrest as a time capsule of the Anthropocene.

Director's Profile
ODA Kaori

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).

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'

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