Nam June Paik Movies

Drawing from Paik's earliest experiments with video synthesizers, Analogue Assemblage employs current technology to create a multilayered montage...

Produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, the Medium Is the Medium is one of the earliest and most prescient examples of the collaboration between public...

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...

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

Magnet TV is an early example of Nam June Paik’s “prepared televisions,” in which he altered the television image or its physical...

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...

The exuberant irreverence and wit of Butterfly characterizes Paik's stream-of-consciousness visual and conceptual techniques. In a vibrant...

Kubota's tribute to her husband, artist Nam June Paik, who died at their home in Miami in January 2006.

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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...

1966, 16mm film on video, black-and-white and color; 10 minutes

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 film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

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...

Beuys Projection, 1990

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

A compilation of avant-garde artwork and talent of the mid to late 20th century hosted by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Single channel video (color; sound; 1984)

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

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...