Nam June Paik Movies

  • 1964
    Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan

    Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan

    Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan

    01964HD

    Hi-Red Centre were comprised of Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi and Jiro Takamatsu, who enacted ‘happening’-style performance art...

    Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan
  • 1974
    Suite 212

    Suite 212

    Suite 212

    01974HD

    Suite 212 is Paik's "personal New York sketchbook," an electronic collage that presents multiple perspectives of New York's media landscape as a...

    Suite 212
  • 1972
    Cinema Metaphysique No. 1-5

    Cinema Metaphysique No. 1-5

    Cinema Metaphysique No. 1-5

    01972HD

    This early work belongs in the company of Paik and Yalkut's classic collaborative "video-films," including Video Tape Study No. 3, Beatles...

    Cinema Metaphysique No. 1-5
  • 1989
    Living with the Living Theatre

    Living with the Living Theatre

    Living with the Living Theatre

    01989HD

    One of Paik's most compelling and poignant tapes, Living with the Living Theatre pays tribute to Judith Malina and the late Julien Beck, founder of...

    Living with the Living Theatre
  • 1978
    Media Shuttle: New York - Moscow

    Media Shuttle: New York - Moscow

    Media Shuttle: New York - Moscow

    01978HD

    Collaboration with Nam June Paik and Dimitri Devyatkin, combining footage from the US and Russia: Brezhnev on TV, a May Day parade, veterans in the...

    Media Shuttle: New York - Moscow
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    01985HD

    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1966
    Kunst und Ketchup

    Kunst und Ketchup

    Kunst und Ketchup

    01966HD

    Early documentary about the pop art scene and happenings in Germany.

    Kunst und Ketchup
  • 2020
    Tapes

    Tapes

    Tapes

    02020HD

    The tapes in the program consist of some of Mekas’ earliest cassettes from the 1990s not long after he first began working with video as well...

    Tapes
  • 2018
    George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

    George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

    George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

    72018HD

    In 1961 Lithuanian American artist and impresario George Maciunas established the avant-garde art movement Fluxus. George details the rise of Fluxus...

    George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
  • 1964
    Zen for Film

    Zen for Film

    Zen for Film

    5.41964HD

    In an endless loop, unexposed film runs through the projector. The resulting projected image shows a surface illuminated by a bright light,...

    Zen for Film
  • 1977
    Nam June Paik: The Good Conscience of the Avant Garde

    Nam June Paik: The Good Conscience of the Avant Garde

    Nam June Paik: The Good Conscience of the Avant Garde

    01977HD

    The film about Nam June Paik, the pioneer of video art, provides insight into his multifaceted artistic work and at the same time paints a...

    Nam June Paik: The Good Conscience of the Avant Garde
  • 1975
    Nam June Paik: Edited for Television

    Nam June Paik: Edited for Television

    Nam June Paik: Edited for Television

    01975HD

    Produced for public television station WNET/Thirteen in New York, Nam June Paik: Edited for Television is a provocative portrait of the artist, his...

    Nam June Paik: Edited for Television
  • 2008
    Joseph Beuys - Coyote III

    Joseph Beuys - Coyote III

    Joseph Beuys - Coyote III

    02008HD

    DVD accompanying the book "Coyote III", documenting Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik performing at the Sôgetsu Hall in Tokyo on the 2nd of June...

    Joseph Beuys - Coyote III
  • 1980
    Lake Placid '80

    Lake Placid '80

    Lake Placid '80

    81980HD

    Paik produced this exuberant, high-speed collage as a commission for the National Fine Arts Committee of the 1980 Olympic Winter Games. In a...

    Lake Placid '80
  • 1975
    Video: The New Wave

    Video: The New Wave

    Video: The New Wave

    01975HD

    The New Wave is the seminal compendium of independent video work in the early 1970s. Written and narrated by Brian O'Doherty, this overview of the...

    Video: The New Wave
  • 2003
    Nam June Paik: The Tiger Lives

    Nam June Paik: The Tiger Lives

    Nam June Paik: The Tiger Lives

    02003HD

    A documentary about the life and work of video artist Nam June Paik made by the Korean Broadcasting Network.

    Nam June Paik: The Tiger Lives
  • 1986
    Adelic Penguins

    Adelic Penguins

    Adelic Penguins

    01986HD

    Originally commissioned by the Sony Corporation of Japan and performed live on the JumboTRON, a fourteen-story TV set at the Expo in Tsukuba, Japan,...

    Adelic Penguins
  • 1972
    Electronic Yoga

    Electronic Yoga

    Electronic Yoga

    61972HD

    Part of the "Video-Film Concert" collection on EAI. From 1966 - 1972. Music by K. S. Narayanaswami.

    Electronic Yoga
  • 1988
    Wrap around the World

    Wrap around the World

    Wrap around the World

    01988HD

    This spectacular satellite link-up, coordinated by Paik, connected the United States, Brazil, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Japan and numerous...

    Wrap around the World
  • 2011
    Re: Maciunas and Fluxus

    Re: Maciunas and Fluxus

    Re: Maciunas and Fluxus

    02011HD

    “Drawing on his personal archives, Mekas has assembled a Fluxus vaudeville starring Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, and the late Nam June Paik. Most of...

    Re: Maciunas and Fluxus