Kaori Oda – Aragane (2015)

Made while director Kaori Oda was studying at Béla Tarr’s Film.Factory in Sarajevo, Aragane is, on the surface, a documentary about a Bosnian coalmine. As Oda takes us underground, the surroundings are illuminated solely by the available light of the miners’ headlamps, creating a state of sensual semi-blindness that both attunes us to the dangers of the mine and — with the beams cutting arcs of light through the blackness and casting shadows on the cavern walls — becomes an organic metaphor for the roots of cinema itself. It is not surprising that commentators have drawn similarities between Oda’s work and that of Harvard’s renowned Sensory Ethnography Lab: as in such films as Leviathan and Manakamana, in Aragane Oda attempts to understand her subjects through an embodied presence that moves beyond distanced knowledge and towards intimate entanglement.

“[Aragane] literally reinvents my idea of what cinema is and can be — and not only because it unfolds mostly in darkness … it has an exquisite formal and even abstract beauty that is complemented, complicated, and sometimes even contradicted throughout by a continuous human presence” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).

Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 7mn
Size: 	963 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1280x720 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	1 843 Kbps
BPP: 	0.080
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AAC LC @ 147 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/F2D176E010E8230/ARAGANE_HD_WEB.mkv

Language(s):Bosnian
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)