Nam June Paik Movies

Video Commune is Jud Yalkut's free-form documentation of Nam June Paik's first interactive television "performance" at the public television station...

Kubota continues her ongoing video diary project. Here she reflects on her relationship with her husband Nam June Paik.

TV Cello Premiere is a silent film documentation of Charlotte Moorman in her first performance on Paik's eponymous TV Cello at the Bonino Gallery in...

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...

Marked by a playful, irreverent sense of improvisation and experimentation, these experiments with image manipulation and synthesis form a link...

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...

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

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

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

Waiting for Commercials is a hilarious compendium of Japanese TV commercials. "Beckett wrote 'Waiting for Godot' twenty years ago, but instead of...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

A Tribute to John Cage is Paik's homage to avant-garde composer John Cage. A major figure in contemporary art and music, Cage was one of the primary...

Part of a restored collection of rare early works by Nam June Paik, Electronic Fables is an example of Paik's early improvisations and experiments...

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...

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