Rachel who is a hippy girl and Barnard who is a middle aged artist are naked dancing in the nature of Southern California.

This film shows lofty sentiments with music by Aki Takahashi. Idemitsu’s mental images are beautifully and sensuously filmed; a mass of snails intertwined as if copulating in a group; scarlet petals; curtains swing in the wind.

The use of shadows to depict of the state of mine of a mother whose children have grown and left the home. The narrator uses herself in this film.

A film by Idemitsu using a work of Cindy Sherman. This film shows Idemitsu’s free and easy sense of humor.

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

One weekend of a gay couple. Title “Touryanse” is a Japanese nursery rhyme and mysterious.

This personal film about the light and shadow of plants is successfully constructed using the subjective gaze of the narrator herself depicting her mother’s death. This work is important to an understanding of this artist, Idemitsu.

When the women’s liberation movement hit the whole of America, Idemitsu filmed the Womanhouse which became her first 16mm film work. Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro jointly organized the Feminist Art Program at the California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts) in 1971. The Cal Arts Feminist Art Program group performed for a Womanhouse audience in1972. They transformed an old run-down mansion in Los Angeles into Womanhouse. In the kitchen a progression of sculptured breasts turned gradually into fried eggs; one bathroom contained a mass of Tampax, and if you opened the linen closet you found a trapped mannequin.

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 original psychological concepts of C.G. Jung. For women, Animus is an image of a man by projection of her mental energy.

Idemitsu’s camera follows a gay, Eckard who has some humor and irony.

This film is requiem for her father’s death.

The film shows vivid close-ups of a liver with the background music of “My Baby” by Janice Joplin.

An abstract film shows the images of tree shadows or the sky in natural light with sharp contrasts. In this personal film, Idemitsu lived between Japan and USA, contains the subjective gaze and her narration of “self as speaker”.

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

An abstract film shows the images of tree shadows or the sky in natural light with sharp contrasts. In this personal film, Idemitsu lived between Japan and USA, contains the subjective gaze and her narration of “self as speaker”.

A comical mindscape of her images with a light nostalgic music, (a popular song in the streets of Europe). The film stars Sam Francis who was Idemitsu’s ex-husband.

A mindscape of her images in Santa Monica, where Idemitsu lived for 8 years.

This film is composed of different images of a girl, clouds, and trees.

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

Under the wild cloudy skies of New Mexico, Idemitsu considers the matter of native Americans in all its aspects.

This abstract film shows images of tree shadows or natural light of summer sky. Its use of special B/W film creates sharp contrasts depicting Karuizawa like another world.

One man’s life is expressed in a form of a mime. Factories’s chimneys as its backdrop.

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 Hosewife” for the Commemoration of the International Women’s year, 1975. Behind Mamako pantomiming as a housewife, there are clouds, sunsets and bonfires.

Images of a beautiful mountain sunset overlaps images of a crowd walking in a hurry.

This film was made for a 3 minutes film festival held in Japan. A cupnoodle will be ready in 3 minutes.

This film creates a vision of a man flying into different shapes of clouds as they cross the sky.