Kaori Oda y Marta Hernaiz Pidal to tour feature film 'Cenote' in Mexico throughout April

Directed by Kaori Oda and Produced by Marta Herzaiz Pidal and Cine Vendeval tour their film Cenote - Screenings of "Cenote" in Yucatan, Mexico, from 4/8 to 4/24, the film will tour 14 municipalities and villages where filming locations. Entirely shot underwater in Yucatán’s Ts’onots/Cenotes

Kaori will be there! BUT, is only staying for about 10 days, so I they can attend about 12 places. Everyday they will strive to attend a different screening!

Outdoor screenings (free) after sunset.

WATCH A TRAILER HERE

Cada vez más cerca del estreno de 'Ts'onot (Cenote)' y nuestro no cabe de emoción. ¡Nos vemos pronto!

Tour Cine Móvil Toto en la península de Yucatán y Campeche, del 8 al 24 de abril.

Estreno en Cineteca NacionalCineteca Nacional, 28 de abril.

Kaori Oda in [RADICAL WHISPERS] Asian Film Archive, Singapore. →

This past September and October, the Asian Film Archive, Singapore screened a collection of films by our Kaori Oda as part of ‘RADICAL WHISPERS: Asian Shorts and Documentaries’

Description:

Bringing together documentaries and short films from Japan, India and Myanmar, represented by filmmakers Kaori Oda, Payal Kapadia and filmmaker-curator Moe Myat May Zarchi, RADICAL WHISPERS explores how whispers—in the form of love letters, secret conversations, journal entries and hearsay— are amplified and transformed into potent sources of political action in film. Through a diverse range of ephemera and story-telling devices, including iphone footage of strangers, 16mm family videos and text messages between friends, the clandestine is made communal, allowing access into the deeply intimate subjectivities of filmmakers and the communities they are part of. Stories of lost love and intergenerational trauma become intertwined with social movements and transnational connections. The boundaries of private and public, solitude and solidarity, secret and overt are re-negotiated. The films offer a provocation into the role of film in disseminating and organising, in connecting and healing. 

Kaori Od's film Cenote now playing on MUBI →

Kaori Oda's magical film CENOTE, set in Mexico and also co-produced by our Marta Hernaiz-Pidal (along with Bistrik7 collaborator and friend Jorge Bolado), is now playing on MUBI for a limited time as part of their Rotterdam Film Festival selection. If you have yet to see it now is your chance!

WATCH HERE: https://mubi.com/films/cenote

圧倒的な映像美、音、言葉で、神秘の泉と古代マヤ族の記憶を手繰り寄せる体感型ドキュメンタリー『セノーテ』小田香監督インタビュー

ハンガリーの巨匠、タル・ベーラ監督が設立したボスニアの映画学校で学び、卒業制作の前作『鉱 ARAGANE』(15)で高い評価を得た小田香監督の最新ドキュメンタリー映画『セノーテ』が、9月19日（土）より新宿 K’s cinema、10月31日（土）よりシネ・ヌーヴォ、今秋出町座、元町映画館他全国順次公開される。　メキシコ、ユカタン半島北部に点在する、セノーテと呼ばれる洞窟内の泉の中、古代マヤ族の文化を継承している村の姿をそれぞれ全く違う質感で見せ、小田監督らしい音へのこだわりも随所に垣間見える。物語を紡ぐのではなく、記憶の断片を集めたような、観る人によって違う印象を覚えるであろう映像詩。泉の水面でしぶきが弾ける様子や、光が届かないような泉の深い場所で大型魚が悠々と泳いでいく姿など、小田監督だからこそ撮れるような感動を呼ぶ映像の数々を浴びるような音とともにぜひ体感してほしい。　見事第一回大島渚賞（ぴあフィルムフェスティバル主催）に輝いた本作の小田香監督にお話を伺った。

https://cinemagical.themedia.jp/posts/9836970/?fbclid=IwAR1cEQvoe3eDHXwNhPcRgTkuPGQW14HYZc-p7xVrVT-sGnGKEZXUhFm7Zto

Kaori Oda's ‘Cenote’ in JAPAN CUTS 2020!

‘Cenote’ in JAPAN CUTS 2020!

We will be showing "and" in the experimental spotlight department of Japan Cuts 2020 Online Film Festival this year. We will also participate in panel discussions to talk to all the directors who are participating in the documentary department.

https://japancuts.japansociety.org/film/new-approaches-to-documentary-from-japan/

An interview with Kaori Oda on her new film Cenote via MUBI Notebook →

Fresh from her International Premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Kaori Oda interview with Kaori Oda on her new film Cenote via MUBI Notebook

Read the full interview HERE:

https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/toward-a-common-tenderness-an-interview-with-kaori-oda

Kaori Oda's Cenote debuts in the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020 →

Next week in the Bright Futures main program, our Kaori Oda’s Mexican documentary premieres at Rotterdam. The film was also co-produced by our Marta Hernaiz-Pidal.

Synopsis:

In Northern Yucatan, Mexico, natural sinkholes called 'cenotes' constituted the sole water source for Mayans not living near a river or lake. Some cenotes were used for ritual sacrifices, and the Mayans believed that these holy springs connected this world to the afterlife.

The past and present of those living around the cenotes coalesce in this mysterious place. Long-lost memories echo in hallucinatory turquoise underwater footage, an entrancing game of light and dark. Swimming in these sinkholes, director Oda Kaori encounters intriguing shapes and beams of light, the water heaves, drops fall like razor blades.

Oda, who studied under Béla Tarr in Sarajevo, previously made Aragane, which was shot in a Bosnian coal mine. For Cenote, she used Super-8 film and a bubbling water soundscape. A captivating form for her impressions of a place where, as a ghostly voiceover explains, nothing is forgotten.

SCREENING DATES & TIMES

Original title Ts'onot

Filmmaker Oda Kaori

Premiere International premiere

Country Japan, Mexico

Year2019

Length 75’

LanguageSpanish

Producer Oda Kaori, Echigoya Takashi, Jorge Bolado, Marta Hernaiz

Production Company FieldRain, Aichi Arts Center, cinevendaval

Sales Article Films

Writer

Oda Kaori

Cinematography Oda Kaori

Editor Oda Kaori, Takeshi Hata

Production Design Marta Hernaiz

Sound Design Oda Kaori

Cast

voices of: Araceli del Rosario Chulim Tun, Juan de la Rosa Mibmay

Website https://fieldrain.net

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<セノーテプロジェクト>

​メキシコユカタン半島北部に点在するセノーテと呼ばれる泉。
樹の根が這う水中洞窟、その縦穴の上から太陽の光が水の中に降る。

生贄として捧げられた者たち。

​脈絡のない断片的な記憶の連なり。

それ自体がもつ直感と予見性。

現地リサーチ(撮影)からインスピレーションをえて制作される映画、映像インスタレーション、ペインティングを横断するプロジェクト

-第1回目リサーチ撮影　2017年5月〜6月　実施

-第2回目リサーチ撮影　2018年5月〜6月　実施

-第3回目リサーチ撮影　2018年11月　実施

​-2019年1月~3月　長編映画作品『セノーテ』編集
-2019年4月　    　長編映画作品『セノーテ』完成

 
2019年6月16日　愛知県美術館・愛知芸術文化センターにて『セノーテ』初上映

​2019年10月　山形国際ドキュメンタリー映画祭アジア千波万波部門にて上映

​2020年1月　ロッテルダム国際映画祭にて上映

​2020年2月　恵比寿映像祭にて上映