Hideo, it's me, Mama [videorecording] / Mako Idemitsu. [1983]

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Hideo, it's me, Mama [videorecording] / Mako Idemitsu. [1983]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166525122

This dark comedy explores the dynamics of the modern Japanese family, focusing on one woman's relationship with her son. Hideo is a young man who lives apart from his parents but is kept under constant video surveillance by his doting mother. The omnipresent video monitor can be interpreted as a metaphor for the mother's role in her grown son's life and for media saturation in contemporary Japanese culture.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (24 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. original.

jpn,

eng,

Getty Research Institute

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6912025

Getty Research Institute

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Idemitsu, Mako, 1940-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g74pt4 (person)

Long Beach museum of art

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62v6njc (corporateBody)

The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) was among the first to focus on video as an artistic medium, spurring similar efforts throughout the United States. Beginning in 1974 the museum began collecting and exhibiting video art, later also actively encouraging the development of video art by co-producing projects and offering editing facilities to artists in its Video Annex. The museum's innovative approaches to the display of video art included several experiments with broadcast and cable television...