Mako Idemitsu
Directing
Born January 1, 1940 in Tōkyō, Japan
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.
Filmography
KIKAIDE MIRUKOTO = Eye Machine / To See by Chance –The Pioneers of Japanese Video Arts–
Kae, Act Like A Girl
Kiyoko's Situation
Yoji, What's Wrong With You?
Great Mother (Sachiko)
Hideo, It's Me, Mama
The Marriage of Yasushi
Whispering Light
Play and Capriciousness
Great Mother (YUMIKO)
Shadow Part 2
Animus Part 1
Animus Part 2
Toryanse
Emotional Volatility About My Father
Shadow Part 1
My America, Your America
Housewives and a Day
At Yukigaya 4
Make Up
At Any Place 4: From the Tango of a Housewife by Yoneyama Mamako
At Any Place 5
At Karuizawa 1
Another Day of a Housewife
At Any Place 3
At Yukigaya 3
At Any Place 2
Something Within Me
At Any Place 1
At Santa Monica 3
At New Mexico 1
At Yukigaya 1
Baby Variations
At Santa Monica 2
At Yukigaya 2
Sam Are You Listening?
At Santa Monica 1
Next
Woman's House
Inner Man