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.
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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.
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.
01 January 1983
In this work, the subconscious problems of a daughter who rejects going school is illustrated based on the concept of the Great Mother, a psychological concept by C.
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 1977
This film shows colorful flowers, frame by frame, with some music. The trembling flower resembles a music symphony.
01 January 1978
One man's life is expressed in a form of a mime with a factories' chimneys are placed as its backdrop.
01 January 1980
As a shadow appears when a human body is lit up, there is a certain dark part like a shadow in the mind of a man.
01 January 1982
This work portrays 'Animus,' a Jungian concept representing the masculine side of the female psyche. It embodies the 'Animus image' felt upon viewing 'Messenger from Hell,' a performance by the late Sayako Kishimoto.
01 January 1974
The film shows vivid close-ups of a liver with the background music of “My Baby” by Janice Joplin.
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.
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.
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 1982
Housewives who find faults in other women that they refuse to admit in themselves, gossiping about them as if it were none of their business.
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.
01 January 1979
In this personal film made during when Idemitsu went back and forth between Japan and USA, the subjective gaze is depicted in the abstract images with high contrast.
01 January 1974
In this personal film made during when Idemitsu went back and forth between Japan and USA, the subjective gaze is depicted in the abstract images with high contrast.
01 January 1978
In Idemitsu's experiment using a video camera and monitor, the reflexive exercise looking into a mirror is swapped with the monitor, suggesting a reflection on the history of women's relationship with makeup.
01 January 1974
This film is composed of different images of a girl, clouds, and trees.
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.
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 1975
A mindscape in Santa Monica, where Idemitsu lived for 8 years.
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.
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.
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.
01 January 1977
Images of a beautiful mountain sunset overlaps images of a crowd walking in a hurry.
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.
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 1982
Depicts one weekend of a gay couple. The title "Touryanse" refers to a Japanese nursery rhyme.
01 January 1978
This abstract film shows images of tree shadows or natural light of summer sky. Its use of special B/W film creates sharp contrasts depicting Karuizawa like another world.
02 May 1986
The relationship between the mother and daughter is psychologically very tight. The isolated husband is irritated and becomes violent whenever he drinks but the two women cannot understand the reason of his violence.
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 1972
Taking place during the women’s liberation movement, Idemitsu filmed the Womanhouse which became her first 16mm film work.
01 January 1973
A woman’s image as a mind-scape, after she had plastic surgery.
01 January 1982
This work portrays 'Animus,' a Jungian concept representing the masculine aspect within women. The Animus embodies both positive and negative dimensions; however, its destructive sides - namely prejudice and rigid attitudes - are demonstrated here through female dialogue and behavior.
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.
01 January 1981
This film is requiem for Idemitsu's father's death.
01 January 1980
What is America to her? Idemitsu, who lived in America for eight years, looks introspectively at herself and her strange connection with America.
01 January 1974
Commissioned by the American Center Japan, Idemitsu made a video introducing her husband Sam Francis.
01 January 1975
Under the wild cloudy skies of New Mexico, Idemitsu reflected on the history of the native Americans.
01 January 1973
A film made using a work of Cindy Sherman, expresses Idemitsu's free and easy sense of humor.
01 January 1970
Idemitsu's camera follows a gay man, Eckard.
01 January 1970
Rachel, a hippie girl, and Bernard, an elderly artist, strip naked and start dancing amidst the lush greenery of Southern California.
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.
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.
17 July 2000
Idemitsu reflects on her family and the war waged by Japan at the beginning of last century in Asia
01 January 1984
The shadows render the state of mind of al mother whose children have grown and left the home.
