Born 1940. A forerunner in independent film and video art in Japan, Idemitsu has tackled gender issues and mother-child relationships. Her works are in permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Pompidou Center in Paris.      Takahiko Iimura has been a pioneer artist of Japanese experimental film and video, working in film since l960 and with video since 1970.   Abraham Ravett was born in Poland in 1947, raised in Israel and emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1955. He holds a B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Filmmaking and Photography and has been an independent filmmaker for the past thirty years.   Born Osaka,Japan in '73. Studied Musashino Art University master course. Making Art of Sounds and Images with video technology or computer.Live in Tokyo, Japan. From 2002-2004, as the dispatched artist of the Overseas Study Program for Artist by Cultural Agency of Japan (2002) and now as the dispatched artist of a Recipient of the POLA Art Foundation Overseas Research Program Grant(2003) in HFG-Karlsruhe in ZKM (National Media Art Center, Karlsruhe / Germany). Now he works as a director of VCTokyo, and as a guest lecturer in Kawaguchi Art School of Waseda University.   VIDEOART CENTER Tokyo (VCTokyo) was founded in 2001 as an association dedicated to videoart and other time based arts in Japan.