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.
Yoji, What's Wrong With You?
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Kae, Act Like A Girl
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Kiyoko's Situation
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Great Mother (YUMIKO)
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What a Woman Made
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The Marriage of Yasushi
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Make Up
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At Any Place 4: From the Tango of a Housewife by Yoneyama Mamako
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Another Day of a Housewife
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Great Mother (Sachiko)
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Women
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Hideo, It's Me, Mama
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Woman's House
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Inner Man
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At Santa Monica 1
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Baby Variations
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Something Within Me
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Whispering Light
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At Any Place 2
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At Yukigaya 1
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At Any Place 1
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Housewives and a Day
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Great Mother (Harumi)
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Kae, Act Like A Girl
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Shadow Part 1
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Next
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At Santa Monica 2
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At Yukigaya 2
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At Santa Monica 3
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At New Mexico 1
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At Any Place 3
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At Yukigaya 3
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At Any Place 5
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At Karuizawa 1
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At Yukigaya 4
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My America, Your America
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Emotional Volatility About My Father
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Shadow Part 2
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Animus Part 1
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Animus Part 2
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Toryanse
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Play and Capriciousness
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Sam Are You Listening?
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Hi! Eckard
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You Can't Get What You Want
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