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.
What a Woman Made
Another Day of a Housewife
Hideo, It's Me, MamaWoman's House
At Santa Monica 1
Inner Man
Baby Variations
At Yukigaya 1
At Any Place 1
Something Within Me
Whispering Light
At Any Place 2
Great Mother (YUMIKO)
Yoji, What's Wrong With You?
Kiyoko's Situation
Kae, Act Like A GirlMake upAt Any Place 4: From the Tango of a Housewife by Yoneyama MamakoThe Marriage of YasushiGreat Mother (Sachiko)
