Nam June Paik Movies

  • 1995

    "Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman

    "Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman

    5.71995HD

    Nam June Paik's first single-channel videotape since 1989 is a heartfelt tribute to his long-time collaborator Charlotte Moorman. This portrait...

  • 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
  • 1992
    Deoksu Palace

    Deoksu Palace

    Deoksu Palace

    01992HD

    Deoksu Palace
  • 1980
    Lake Placid '80

    Lake Placid '80

    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...

    Lake Placid '80
  • 1993
    Sistine Chapel

    Sistine Chapel

    Sistine Chapel

    01993HD

    Sistine Chapel is an audio-visual collage of new footage and samples from Paik’s past videos, which featured many of his friends,...

    Sistine Chapel
  • 1978
    Merce by Merce by Paik

    Merce by Merce by Paik

    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...

    Merce by Merce by Paik
  • 1999
    Laboratorium Anthology

    Laboratorium Anthology

    Laboratorium Anthology

    01999HD

    Scenes from the life and work at Anthology Film Archives. Much of the footage in this video was shot by Auguste Varkalis.

    Laboratorium Anthology
  • 1978
    Media Shuttle: New York - Moscow

    Media Shuttle: New York - Moscow

    Media Shuttle: New York - Moscow

    01978HD

    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
  • 1972
    Waiting for Commercials

    Waiting for Commercials

    Waiting for Commercials

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

    Waiting for Commercials
  • 1984
    Persistence of Vision

    Persistence of Vision

    Persistence of Vision

    01984HD

    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
  • 2018
    George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

    George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

    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...

    George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
  • 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
  • 1973
    Global Groove

    Global Groove

    Global Groove

    7.71973HD

    Global Groove was a collaborative piece by Nam June Paik and John Godfrey. Paik, amongst other artists who shared the same vision in the 1960s, saw...

    Global Groove
  • 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
  • 1978
    Merce by Merce by Paik Part Two: Merce and Marcel

    Merce by Merce by Paik Part Two: Merce and Marcel

    Merce by Merce by Paik Part Two: Merce and Marcel

    01978HD

    Nam June Paik and Shigeko Kubota remix interviews of Marcel Duchamp and Russell Connor.

    Merce by Merce by Paik Part Two: Merce and Marcel
  • 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
  • 1982
    Bonjour Nam June Paik I

    Bonjour Nam June Paik I

    Bonjour Nam June Paik I

    01982HD

    A Super 8 work made in New York after Nam June Paik invited Kim Soungui to the city.

    Bonjour Nam June Paik I
  • 1992
    Video Commune (Beatles from Beginning to End)

    Video Commune (Beatles from Beginning to End)

    Video Commune (Beatles from Beginning to End)

    01992HD

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

    Video Commune (Beatles from Beginning to End)
  • 1968
    Early Color TV Manipulations

    Early Color TV Manipulations

    Early Color TV Manipulations

    01968HD

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

    Early Color TV Manipulations
  • 1974
    Suite 212

    Suite 212

    Suite 212

    01974HD

    Suite 212 is Paik's "personal New York sketchbook," an electronic collage that presents multiple perspectives of New York's media landscape as a...

    Suite 212