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.
Kae, Act Like A Girl
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Yoji, What's Wrong With You?
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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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At Any Place 4: From the Tango of a Housewife by Yoneyama Mamako
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Make Up
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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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Whispering Light
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At Yukigaya 1
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Something Within Me
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At Any Place 1
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At Any Place 2
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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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Make Up
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At Yukigaya 4
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