Mako Idemitsu Movies

The film shows vivid close-ups of a liver with the background music of “My Baby” by Janice Joplin.

Video began as a medium that inspired discovery. This art documentary traces the expressive roots of “media art” in Japan — works...

At Any Place 1, 1975, film, 16 min, color. Casted over the sky, images of people are suggested as shapes of clouds

This film shows the images of a dancing woman who is wearing Kimono overlapping another image which a naked man is dancing. This is one of the...

When Yoji announces to his mother that he wants her to meet a new girlfriend, the mother's jealousy destroys the relationship. Yoji's mother fastens...

In Idemitsu's experiment using a video camera and monitor, the reflexive exercise looking into a mirror is swapped with the monitor, suggesting a...

A mindscape in Santa Monica, where Idemitsu lived for 8 years.

Idemitsu handed four women who frequented the feminist gathering space Hōkiboshi a video camera to record whatever they wished as Idemitsu also...

What is America to her? Idemitsu, who lived in America for eight years, looks introspectively at herself and her strange connection with America.

One of a series of Idemitsu’s works which deal with housewives buried in everyday life. Idemitsu overlapped a 16 mm work that had Yoneyama...

Kiyoko's Situation articulates the deeply embedded cultural roles of Japanese women through the parallel stories of two female artists, Kiyoko and...

Idemitsu's camera follows a gay man, Eckard.

Today, Japan is envied by the world for her economic prosperity, which however, has resulted in producing this sort of average family. Its contains a...

Rachel, a hippie girl, and Bernard, an elderly artist, strip naked and start dancing amidst the lush greenery of Southern California.

This film shows colorful flowers, frame by frame, with some music. The trembling flower resembles a music symphony.

Hideo, a young man living away from his parents, is kept under constant surveillance by his doting mother via an omnipresent television monitor. Mama...

A woman’s image as a mind-scape, after she had plastic surgery.

A film made using a work of Cindy Sherman, expresses Idemitsu's free and easy sense of humor.

This film is composed of different images of a girl, clouds, and trees.

The relationship between the mother and daughter is psychologically very tight. The isolated husband is irritated and becomes violent whenever he...