Japanese experimental filmmaker Kaori Oda uses her camera as a navigational tool, feeling her way through unfamiliar worlds, particularly subterranean terrains, in her “underground” experimental non-fiction features. These films are dazzling visual and sensory experiences that at first seem preoccupied with remote, unlivable landscapes. Yet within even the most extreme locales, Oda reveals a strikingly syncretic world – one in which nonhuman landscapes converse with human memories, desires, and cosmologies.
