Nam June Paik Movies
- 1986
Bye Bye Kipling
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This ambitious live satellite link-up of Japan, Korea and the United States features interviews with Keith Haring and architect Arata Isozaki, and...
- 1986
Adelic Penguins
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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,...
- 1974
Suite 212
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Suite 212 is Paik's "personal New York sketchbook," an electronic collage that presents multiple perspectives of New York's media landscape as a...
- 1964
Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes
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This fascinating film documents the U.S. premiere production of Originale, a Happening by German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. Filmed at the "2nd...
- 1964
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,...
- 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...
- 2018
George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
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In 1961 Lithuanian American artist and impresario George Maciunas established the avant-garde art movement Fluxus. George details the rise of Fluxus...
- 1972
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...
- 1980
Lake Placid '80
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Paik produced this exuberant, high-speed collage as a commission for the National Fine Arts Committee of the 1980 Olympic Winter Games. In a...
- 1984
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...
- 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...
- 1988
One Candle, One Projection
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One Candle, One Projection
- 1965
Electronic Fables
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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...
- 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...
- 2008
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...
- 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....
- 1976
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...
- 1995
"Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman
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Nam June Paik's first single-channel videotape since 1989 is a heartfelt tribute to his long-time collaborator Charlotte Moorman. This portrait...
- 1971
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...
- 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...