Nam June Paik Movies
- 1964
Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan
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Hi-Red Centre were comprised of Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi and Jiro Takamatsu, who enacted ‘happening’-style performance art...
- 2020
Tapes
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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...
- 1966
Kunst und Ketchup
Kunst und Ketchup01966HD
Early documentary about the pop art scene and happenings in Germany.
- 1978
Merce by Merce by Paik
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Merce by Merce by Paik is a two-part tribute to choreographer Merce Cunningham and artist Marcel Duchamp. The first section, “Blue Studio: Five...
- 1974
Suite 212
Suite 21201974HD
Suite 212 is Paik's "personal New York sketchbook," an electronic collage that presents multiple perspectives of New York's media landscape as a...
- 1967
Videotape Study No. 3
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Part of a collection of restored early works by Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut, this piece is historically significant as well as remarkably prescient....
- 1974
TV Garden
TV Garden01974HD
TV Garden is Paik’s imagined future landscape where technology is an integral part of the natural world. Placing television sets amongst live...
- 1982
Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint
Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint01982HD
The influence of Jewish fathers on their sons and the complexity of familial relationships are explored in a witty, poignant portrait of two artists....
- 2011
Re: Maciunas and Fluxus
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“Drawing on his personal archives, Mekas has assembled a Fluxus vaudeville starring Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, and the late Nam June Paik. Most of...
- 1994
The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties
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A portrait of Nam June Paik produced as a 'video catalog' for the exhibition 'The Electronic Super Highway', which premiered at The Museum of Art in...
- 1964
Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes
Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes01964HD
This fascinating film documents the U.S. premiere production of Originale, a Happening by German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. Filmed at the "2nd...
- 1967
Missa of Zen
Missa of Zen01967HD
In Missa of Zen, a TV screen, filmed from an extremely oblique angle, appears as a ghostly, flickering sliver at the side of a darkened frame. The...
- 1974
TV Buddha
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One of Nam June Paik’s most iconic works, TV Buddha expresses the contrasts and parallels between East and West and between technology and...
- 1979
Flux-Concert
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On March 24, 1979, The Kitchen presented a two-part program dedicated to the work of various Fluxus artists. The programming began with the premiere...
- 1992
Moon is the Oldest TV
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- 1969
Electronic Opera no. 1
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Nam June Paik’s Electronic Opera no. 1 first aired in 1969 as part of The Medium is the Medium, a special “artist transmission”...
- 1973
26'1.1499" For A String Player
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This tape is Jud Yalkut's video realization of Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik's concert performance of John Cage's composition 26'1.1499" For...
- 1988
One Candle, One Projection
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One Candle, One Projection
- 1972
Electronic Yoga
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Part of the "Video-Film Concert" collection on EAI. From 1966 - 1972. Music by K. S. Narayanaswami.
- 1969
9/23/69: Experiment with David Atwood
9/23/69: Experiment with David Atwood01969HD
This early masterwork of electronic experimentation was created by Paik while he was Artist-in-Residence at WGBH in Boston. The title refers to the...