Mako Idemitsu Trailers
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Experimental video artist Mako Idemitsu creates domestic narratives, that examine female identity within the context of the contemporary Japanese family. Echoing and subverting the popular melodramas of Japanese television, she applies a women's liberationist critique to her fictions of the psychological "family romance." Dramatising the strict gender roles that shape mother-child and husband-wife relationships, she explores the role of women in a patriarchal, mediated culture.
Most Popular Mako Idemitsu Trailers
Total trailers found: 23
19 July 1975
This film shows lofty sentiments with music by Aki Takahashi. Idemitsu’s mental images are beautifully and sensuously filmed; a mass of snails intertwined as if copulating in a group; scarlet petals; curtains swing in the wind.
06 September 1974
At Yukigaya 1, 1974, film, 3 min, color. A comical mindscape, the film stars Sam Francis who was Idemitsu’s ex-husband.
16 December 1975
This film was made for a 3 minutes film festival held in Japan. A cup noodle is ready in 3 minutes.
01 January 1972
Taking place during the women’s liberation movement, Idemitsu filmed the Womanhouse which became her first 16mm film work.
26 June 1975
At Any Place 1, 1975, film, 16 min, color. Casted over the sky, images of people are suggested as shs
01 January 1977
Idemitsu handed four women who frequented the feminist gathering space Hōkiboshi a video camera to record whatever they wished as Idemitsu also recorded their actions.
02 May 1986
HIDEO, It's Me, Mama is a psychological melodrama that introduces narrative and structural devices that are integral to Idemitsu's work.
01 January 1974
A woman’s image as a mind-scape, after she had plastic surgery.
01 January 1974
The film shows vivid close-ups of a liver with the background music of “My Baby” by Janice Joplin.
26 December 1979
A plan of a house that is reminiscent of a miniature garden used as a psychological treatment to assist in self-confirmation at a middle-class housewive’s tea party.
01 January 1977
A woman performs domestic chores, watched by a television displaying the image of her own eye. The home is recast as a space of surveillance, control and repetitive labor.
01 January 1972
This film shows the images of a dancing woman who is wearing Kimono overlapping another image which a naked man is dancing.
01 January 1978
One of a series of Idemitsu’s works which deal with housewives buried in everyday life. Idemitsu overlapped a 16 mm work that had Yoneyama Mamako pantomiming in her “Tango of a Hosewife” for the Commemoration of the International Women’s year, 1975.
27 July 1987
The psychosexual drama Yoji, What's Wrong With You? examines the identity of women as mothers in Japanese culture, through an Oedipal narrative of a skewed "family romance.
10 April 2013
Video began as a medium that inspired discovery. This art documentary traces the expressive roots of “media art” in Japan — works of video, performances, and installations created using video technology that allowed for free and creative visual expression.
01 January 1983
1983 art piece by Mako Idemitsu
27 July 1983
The second part of a trilogy, Great Mother (YUMIKO) is a domestic melodrama that examines the cultural and familial role of Japanese women by tracing the psychology of a turbulent mother-daughter relationship.
14 February 1985
Whispering Light, 1985, film, 10:50 min, color In this emblematic personal film, light and shadow of plants is successfully constructed over the subjective gaze of the narrator who is working through her mother’s death.
31 March 1973
In Idemitsu's seminal women's liberationist video, the image of a tampon swirling in a toilet bowl slowly appears, as the artist speaks about the troubling roles, responsibilities and expectations of women in a clinical tone.
01 January 1986
Today, Japan is envied by the world for her economic prosperity, which however, has resulted in producing this sort of average family.
27 July 1996
In Kae, Act Like A Girl, Idemitsu continues her experimental narrative exploration of women's roles in contemporary Japan with a tale of women's liberationist awakening.
27 July 1989
Kiyoko's Situation articulates the deeply embedded cultural roles of Japanese women through the parallel stories of two female artists, Kiyoko and Tani.
