Nam June Paik

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Nam June Paik

Directing July 20, 1932

Gyeongseong, South Korea [now Seoul]

Nam June Paik was the first video artist who experimented with electronic media and made a profound impact on the art of video and television. He coined the phrase "Information Su…

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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

7.8 2000 Movie
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

6.8 2023 Movie
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

8.4 1986 Movie
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

6.8 2011 Movie
George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

7.0 2018 Movie
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen

‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen

7.8 1974 Movie
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

8.1 1984 Movie
365 Day Project

365 Day Project

10.0 2007 Movie
TV Garden

TV Garden

1974 Movie
Adelic Penguins

Adelic Penguins

1986 Movie
Sistine Chapel

Sistine Chapel

1993 Movie
TV Buddha

TV Buddha

1974 Movie

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Nam June Paik was the first video artist who experimented with electronic media and made a profound impact on the art of video and television. He coined the phrase "Information Superhighway" in 1974, and has been called the "father of video art."

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2023
    Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  2. 2020
    Tapes

    Movie

  3. 2019
    Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

    Movie

  4. 2018
    George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  5. 2011
    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

    Movie Himself (archive footage)

  6. 2011
    Re: Maciunas and Fluxus

    Movie

  7. 2010
    Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970

    Movie Director

  8. 2008
    Joseph Beuys - Coyote III

    Movie Himself

  9. 2007
    365 Day Project

    Movie Self

  10. 2006
    Winter in Miami 2005

    Movie Self

  11. 2006
    Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  12. 2003
    Nam June Paik: The Tiger Lives

    Movie Self

  13. 2000
    As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    Movie Self

  14. 2000
    Analogue Assemblage

    Movie Director

  15. 1999
    April is the Cruelest Month

    Movie Self

  16. 1998
    Sexual Healing

    Movie Self

More credits
  1. 1995
    "Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman

    Movie

  2. 1994
    The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties

    Movie Self

  3. 1993
    Sistine Chapel

    Movie Director

  4. 1993
    The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus

    Movie Self

  5. 1992
    Deoksu Palace

    Movie Director

  6. 1992
    Moon is the Oldest TV

    Movie Director

  7. 1992
    Video Commune (Beatles from Beginning to End)

    Movie Director

  8. 1990
    Beuys

    Movie Director

  9. 1989
    Living with the Living Theatre

    Movie Director

  10. 1988
    Wrap around the World

    Movie Director

  11. 1988
    One Candle, One Projection

    Movie Director

  12. 1987
    Back to Fucking Cambridge

    Movie Anton von Webern

  13. 1986
    Bye Bye Kipling

    Movie Self

  14. 1986
    Adelic Penguins

    Movie Art Direction

  15. 1986
    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  16. 1986
    Butterfly

    Movie Director

  17. 1985
    All Star Video

    Movie Self

  18. 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Movie

  19. 1984
    Trip to Korea

    Movie

  20. 1984
    Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

    Movie Director

  21. 1984
    Persistence of Vision

    Movie Self

  22. 1982
    Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint

    Movie Director

  23. 1982
    Bonjour Nam June Paik I

    Movie

  24. 1980
    Lake Placid '80

    Movie Director