Mako Idemitsu

 

Mako Idemitsu

Hideo, It’s me, Mama (27 min.)

http://www.makoidemitsu.com/ (This is her website. I could not find her video online.)

My reasoning behind choosing this work stems from the interesting concept of a mother who will always see her child as young person in need of mothering. Idemitsu finds a way to show the fear and abandonment that a housewife experiences when her children grow up. It is interesting to see the views of a mother who is having a hard time grasping the fact that her children are no longer children. Instead of dealing with the present, the mother is caught in a never-ending obsession with the past. Her love for the children and because her married life had always been encircled around her children has entangled her in the past instead of moving forward. Basically, this idea of not being able to move forward and constantly dealing with a past is was intrigues me.

I was not able to find the video online but based from the description of the video on Idemistu’s website, the video is a mother who monitors her child constantly via video screen. The child is constantly on a monitor that the mother watches at all times, telling the child how to act and other thoughts of criticism.

In desperation to cling to a past, the housewife will constantly monitor her grown up children through a screen to make sure they are doing the right thing. Two different times are linked in one video. One time is of the child who has grown up and the other time is of the mother who only sees her grown up child as the young child she gave birth to only years ago.