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

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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

Housewives who find faults in other women that they refuse to admit in themselves, gossiping about them as if it were none of their business. This...

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

This film shows lofty sentiments with music by Aki Takahashi. Idemitsu’s mental images are beautifully and sensuously filmed; a mass of snails...

Depicts one weekend of a gay couple. The title "Touryanse" refers to a Japanese nursery rhyme.

In Kae, Act Like A Girl, Idemitsu continues her experimental narrative exploration of women's roles in contemporary Japan with a tale of women's...

Idemitsu's camera follows a gay man, Eckard.

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

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