Hideo Its Me Mama

HIDEO Its Me Mama is a psychological melodrama that introduces narrative and structural devices that are integral to Idemitsus work Exploring the flawed universe of the contemporary Japanese family she focuses on a womans identity as mother through motherchild and husbandwife relationships Hideo a young man living away from his parents is kept under constant surveillance by his doting mother via an omnipresent television monitor In a cogent metaphor for familial relations in the mediasaturated culture of contemporary Japan Mama can only communicate with her beloved absent son through the video screen Idemitsus poignant irony is embodied in the scene in which Mama blind to her husbands needs caresses Hideos video image Electronic Arts Intermix