Mako Idemitsu Movies

Video began as a medium that inspired discovery. This art documentary traces the expressive roots of “media art” in Japan — works...

Whispering Light, 1985, film, 10:50 min, color In this emblematic personal film, light and shadow of plants is successfully constructed over the...

Taking place during the women’s liberation movement, Idemitsu filmed the Womanhouse which became her first 16mm film work. Judy Chicago and...

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...

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...

A woman’s image as a mind-scape, after she had plastic surgery.

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...

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...

This film shows lofty sentiments with music by Aki Takahashi. Idemitsu’s mental images are beautifully and sensuously filmed; a mass of snails...

This film shows the images of a dancing woman who is wearing Kimono overlapping another image which a naked man is dancing. This is one of the...

Today, Japan is envied by the world for her economic prosperity, which however, has resulted in producing this sort of average family. Its contains a...

1983 art piece by Mako Idemitsu

Kiyoko's Situation articulates the deeply embedded cultural roles of Japanese women through the parallel stories of two female artists, Kiyoko and...

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...

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...

HIDEO, It's Me, Mama is a psychological melodrama that introduces narrative and structural devices that are integral to Idemitsu's work. Exploring...

Idemitsu handed four women who frequented the feminist gathering space Hōkiboshi a video camera to record whatever they wished as Idemitsu also...

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...

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. This is an aspect of a man’s...