Nam June Paik Movies

  • 2006
    Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master

    Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master

    Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master

    02006HD

    Friends and colleagues (including Yoko Ono and Merce Cunningham) of Nam June Paik share their thoughts about the groundbreaking multimedia artist in...

    Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master
  • 1990
    Beuys

    Beuys

    Beuys

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    Beuys Projection, 1990

    Beuys
  • 1962
    Nam June Paik

    Nam June Paik

    Nam June Paik

    01962HD

    Short film about performance, realized when Nam June Paik participated in Karlheinz Stockhausen's piece "Originale" in Cologne in 1961.

    Nam June Paik
  • 1974
    TV Garden

    TV Garden

    TV Garden

    01974HD

    TV Garden is Paik’s imagined future landscape where technology is an integral part of the natural world. Placing television sets amongst live...

    TV Garden
  • 2000
    Analogue Assemblage

    Analogue Assemblage

    Analogue Assemblage

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    Drawing from Paik's earliest experiments with video synthesizers, Analogue Assemblage employs current technology to create a multilayered montage...

    Analogue Assemblage
  • 1965
    Magnet TV

    Magnet TV

    Magnet TV

    01965HD

    Magnet TV is an early example of Nam June Paik’s “prepared televisions,” in which he altered the television image or its physical...

    Magnet TV
  • 1967
    Digital Experiment at Bell Labs

    Digital Experiment at Bell Labs

    Digital Experiment at Bell Labs

    01967HD

    Using Bell Lab's pioneering research facilities, Paik creates a starkly minimal experiment in computer imaging, in which a shifting dot appears on a...

    Digital Experiment at Bell Labs
  • 1968
    The Medium Is the Medium

    The Medium Is the Medium

    The Medium Is the Medium

    01968HD

    Produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, the Medium Is the Medium is one of the earliest and most prescient examples of the collaboration between public...

    The Medium Is the Medium
  • 2019
    Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

    Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

    Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

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    Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools of television to pioneer new ways of...

    Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
  • 1992
    Moon is the Oldest TV

    Moon is the Oldest TV

    Moon is the Oldest TV

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    Moon is the Oldest TV
  • 1988
    Wrap around the World

    Wrap around the World

    Wrap around the World

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

    Wrap around the World
  • 1986
    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

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    A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
  • 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
  • 1992
    Deoksu Palace

    Deoksu Palace

    Deoksu Palace

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    Deoksu Palace
  • 1965
    Button Happening

    Button Happening

    Button Happening

    01965HD

    Button Happening is Nam June Paik's earliest extant tape, and possibly his first tape ever. Recorded in 1965 on the day he acquired his first Sony...

    Button Happening
  • 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
  • 1974
    TV Buddha

    TV Buddha

    TV Buddha

    01974HD

    One of Nam June Paik’s most iconic works, TV Buddha expresses the contrasts and parallels between East and West and between technology and...

    TV Buddha
  • 1987
    Back to Fucking Cambridge

    Back to Fucking Cambridge

    Back to Fucking Cambridge

    01987HD

    About a group of graduates from Cambridge University who go back to their college to visit a friend who has stayed on there. Otto Muehl founded a...

    Back to Fucking Cambridge
  • 1988
    One Candle, One Projection

    One Candle, One Projection

    One Candle, One Projection

    01988HD

    One Candle, One Projection

    One Candle, One Projection
  • 1984
    Trip to Korea

    Trip to Korea

    Trip to Korea

    01984HD

    Single channel video (color; sound; 1984)

    Trip to Korea