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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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.

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

In this personal film made during when Idemitsu went back and forth between Japan and USA, the subjective gaze is depicted in the abstract images...

Idemitsu's camera follows a gay man, Eckard.

As a shadow appears when a human body is lit up, there is a certain dark part like a shadow in the mind of a man. This is an aspect of a man’s...

In this work, the subconscious problems of a daughter who rejects going school is illustrated based on the concept of the Great Mother, a...

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

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

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

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...

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