Nam June Paik Movies

One Candle, One Projection

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...

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

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

This was filmed on November 1, 1997 at Anthology Film Archives during a tribute to Joseph Beuys. Nam June Paik destroys a piano. From the cycle of...

Paik produced this exuberant, high-speed collage as a commission for the National Fine Arts Committee of the 1980 Olympic Winter Games. In a...

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

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

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

Nam June Paik’s Electronic Opera no. 1 first aired in 1969 as part of The Medium is the Medium, a special “artist transmission”...

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...

Filmmaker Elliot Caplan pays tribute to the partnership of composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham.

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...

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

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...

The film about Nam June Paik, the pioneer of video art, provides insight into his multifaceted artistic work and at the same time paints a...

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

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

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