Movie Details
Original Language:Japanese
Womans House
DirectorMako Idemitsu
12 min
Plot
Taking place during the womens liberation movement 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 the audience at Womanhouse in 1972 They transformed an old rundown mansion in Los Angeles into Womanhouse In the kitchen a progression of sculptured breasts gradually turned into fried eggs one bathroom contained a mass of Tampax and if you opened the linen closet you found a trapped mannequin
