KAE, Act Like a Girl! |
1996 · V96001-Video/F/ D96001-DVD · 47min.20sec. |
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The idea for this scenario came from a statement in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, "No one is born a woman. One becomes a woman." Idemitsu depicts a woman artist married to another artist and caught between the conflicting demands of housework and creativity. It was an attitude instilled in her as child because of the way her parents and school teachers behaved toward her. "Since you're a girl, you should do the housework." When she was deciding what to study, she repeatedly heard the words, "Because you are a girl..." To use a term popular in Japan right now, she was subjected to "mind control." At first Kae, woman artist does give in because of this psychological programming, but eventually she fights against these psychological factors represented by a variety of images and wins. This process will be shown through striking images using a projector. |
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Kiyoko's Situation |
1989 · V89001-Video / D89001-DVD · 24min.20sec. |
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Kiyoko is a middle-aged housewife. She is trying to paint, after twenty years when she had to give up painting. Everyday problems will trap a woman if she has too much energy and ability to be wasted on house-works. The desire to express her identity has been repressed so long, and now it is coming out with a vengeance. The frustration over her suppressed desires drives her desperation. The greater her latent ability, the deeper her desperation. Award from Mention Special du Jury categorie "EXPERIMENTAL" La mondiale de film et videos, Quebec, Canada in 1991, and Prix Procirep Section Fiction, Festival International de Videos et Films, Centre Audivisuel Simone de Beauvoir, Paris, France in 1992 |
Animus PART 1 |
1982 · V82001-Video / D82001-DVD · 13min.10sec. 1982 · V82002-Video / D82002-DVD · 19min.40sec. |
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Animus is one of the original psychological concepts of C.G. Jung. For women, Animus is an image of a man by projection of her mental energy. How does the Animus of a woman who performs under the name of Hell's Messenger work? |
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Shadow PART 1 |
1980 · V80001-Video / D80001-DVD · 25min.30sec. 1982 · V82003-Video / D82003-DVD · 41min.40sec. |
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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 personality which he usually is hesitant to admit. C.G.Jung, Swiss psychologist, called this dark aspect a shadow because it appears in personified forms when one dreams. In my work Shadows, there is another monitor in the images of the main monitor. The inside monitor shows the mind of the outside characters, that is, the inside monitor's characters are shadows, psychological projections of the outside characters. Since the issue of shadows is so complicated and hard to understand, I selected examples that are specific and understandable, as well as familiar to women in their daily life. These are also the feeling I have toward my routine life. |
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At Any Place 4: |
1978 · 16mm / F78001-Video / D78001-DVD · 12min.30sec. |
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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 Mamako pantomiming in her "Tango of a Housewife" for the Commemoration of the International Women's year, 1975. Behind Mamako pantomiming as a housewife which mimics the reality of a housewife's stereotyped life by means of pantomime, there are clouds, sunsets and bonfires. |
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Another Day of a Housewife |
1977 · V77001-Video / D77001-DVD · 9min.50sec. |
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This video was made in those days when I was really fed up with being a house wife. In the endless repetition of routine house chores I noticed another "me" was watching the house wife "me." Who am I? What is it to live? I wanted to share these questions with others. |
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What a Woman Made |
1973 · V73012-Video/F / D73012-DVD · 11 min. |
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While this video shows the used Tampaxs, containing the subjective gaze and narration herself which how girls become a women. |
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