Mako Idemitsu

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 of Mako Idemitsu

• Kae, Act Like A Girl (1996)
• Kiyoko's Situation (1989)
• Yoji, What's Wrong With You? (1987)
• The Marriage of Yasushi (1986)
• Great Mother (Sachiko) (1986)
• Hideo, It's Me, Mama (1986)
• Whispering Light (1985)
• Play and Capriciousness (1984)
• Great Mother (YUMIKO) (1983)
• Shadow Part 2 (1982)
• Animus Part 1 (1982)
• Animus Part 2 (1982)
• Toryanse (1982)
• Emotional Volatility About My Father (1981)
• Shadow Part 1 (1980)
• My America, Your America (1980)
• Housewives and a Day (1979)
• At Yukigaya 4 (1979)
• Make Up (1978)
• At Any Place 4: From the Tango of a Housewife by Yoneyama Mamako (1978)
• At Any Place 5 (1978)
• At Karuizawa 1 (1978)
• Another Day of a Housewife (1977)
• At Any Place 3 (1977)
• At Yukigaya 3 (1977)
• Something Within Me (1975)
• At Any Place 1 (1975)
• At Any Place 2 (1975)
• At Santa Monica 3 (1975)
• At New Mexico 1 (1975)
• Baby Variations (1974)
• At Yukigaya 1 (1974)
• At Santa Monica 2 (1974)
• At Yukigaya 2 (1974)
• Sam Are You Listening? (1974)
• At Santa Monica 1 (1973)
• Next (1973)
• Woman's House (1972)
• Inner Man (1972)