Nam June Paik
Directing
Born 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 Superhighway" in 1974, and has been called the "father of video art."
Directed (42)
Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970
2010
Analogue Assemblage
2000
"Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman
1995
Sistine Chapel
1993
Deoksu Palace
1992
Moon is the Oldest TV
1992
Video Commune (Beatles from Beginning to End)
1992
Beuys
1990
Living with the Living Theatre
1989
One Candle, One Projection
1988
Wrap around the World
1988
Bye Bye Kipling
1986
Butterfly
1986
All Star Video
1985
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
1984
Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint
1982
Lake Placid '80
1980
Media Shuttle: New York - Moscow
1978
Merce by Merce by Paik
1978
Guadalcanal Requiem
1977
A Tribute to John Cage
1976
Suite 212
1974
TV Buddha
1974
TV Garden
1974
Global Groove
1973
Electronic Yoga
1972
Cinema Metaphysique No. 1-5
1972
TV Cello Premiere
1971
Electronic Opera no. 1
1969
Beatles Electroniques
1969
9/23/69: Experiment with David Atwood
1969
The Medium Is the Medium
1968
Early Color TV Manipulations
1968
Videotape Study No. 3
1967
Missa of Zen
1967
Digital Experiment at Bell Labs
1967
Electronic Moon No. 2
1966
Waiting for Commercials
1966
Electronic Fables
1965
Magnet TV
1965
Button Happening
1965
Zen for Film
1964
Acting (35)
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023
Tapes
2020
Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
2019
George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
2018
Re: Maciunas and Fluxus
2011
Joseph Beuys - Coyote III
2008
365 Day Project
2007
Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master
2006
Winter in Miami 2005
2006
Nam June Paik: The Tiger Lives
2003
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
April is the Cruelest Month
1999
Sexual Healing
1998
"Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman
1995
The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties
1994
Back to Fucking Cambridge
1987
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
Bye Bye Kipling
1986
All Star Video
1985
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
Trip to Korea
1984
Persistence of Vision
1984
Flux-Concert
1979
Nam June Paik: The Good Conscience of the Avant Garde
1977
A Tribute to John Cage
1976
Video: The New Wave
1975
Nam June Paik: Edited for Television
1975
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
1974
