Nam June Paik Movies

  • 1971
    TV Cello Premiere

    TV Cello Premiere

    TV Cello Premiere

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    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...

    TV Cello Premiere
  • 2003
    Nam June Paik: The Tiger Lives

    Nam June Paik: The Tiger Lives

    Nam June Paik: The Tiger Lives

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    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
  • 1994
    The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties

    The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties

    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...

    The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties
  • 1972
    Cinema Metaphysique No. 1-5

    Cinema Metaphysique No. 1-5

    Cinema Metaphysique No. 1-5

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    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
  • 1984
    Persistence of Vision

    Persistence of Vision

    Persistence of Vision

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    A short documentary profile of the Anthology Film Archives, shot on the eve of the move to the historic 2nd Avenue Courthouse. Staff and patrons are...

    Persistence of Vision
  • 1965
    Magnet TV

    Magnet TV

    Magnet TV

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    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
  • 1972
    Electronic Yoga

    Electronic Yoga

    Electronic Yoga

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

    Electronic Yoga
  • 1987
    Back to Fucking Cambridge

    Back to Fucking Cambridge

    Back to Fucking Cambridge

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    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
  • 1967
    Missa of Zen

    Missa of Zen

    Missa of Zen

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    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...

    Missa of Zen
  • 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

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    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
  • 1974
    TV Garden

    TV Garden

    TV Garden

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    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1978
    Media Shuttle: New York - Moscow

    Media Shuttle: New York - Moscow

    Media Shuttle: New York - Moscow

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    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
  • 2008
    Joseph Beuys - Coyote III

    Joseph Beuys - Coyote III

    Joseph Beuys - Coyote III

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    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
  • 1976
    A Tribute to John Cage

    A Tribute to John Cage

    A Tribute to John Cage

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    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...

    A Tribute to John Cage
  • 1970
    Processing the Signal

    Processing the Signal

    Processing the Signal

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    Processing the Signal
  • 1984
    Trip to Korea

    Trip to Korea

    Trip to Korea

    01984HD

    Single channel video (color; sound; 1984)

    Trip to Korea
  • 1962
    Nam June Paik

    Nam June Paik

    Nam June Paik

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

    Nam June Paik
  • 1964
    Zen for Film

    Zen for Film

    Zen for Film

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    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