Mako Idemitsu

Born 1940 in Tokyo, Japan. Using self-taught techniques, Mako Idemitsu made her first 8 mm film in 1970. She creates video narratives that examine female identity within the contemporary Japanese family. Echoing and subverting the popular melodramas of Japanese television, her work applies a feminist critique to the strict gender roles that shape mother-child and husband-wife relationships. Her works, which have been exhibited internationally, include Hideo, It's Me Mama (1983) and the Great Mother series (1983-84). New Wine into Old Bottles: Some Comments on the Early Years of Art... by Laura Cottingham. Outer & Inner Space: Pipilotti Rist, Shirin Neshat, Jane & Louise Wilson, and the History of Video Art, 2002. Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Mudeum of Fine Art/University of Washington Press, 2002. by Bob Riley. The Arts for Television, 1987. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1987. Made in Japan: New Video: Japan at the Museum of Modern Art, New... by Bruce Ferguson. 1984 Ottawa International Festival of Video Art, 1984. Ottawa: SAW Gallery, 1984.