Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV

Showings

The Beverly Theater Fri, Jun 16, 2023 4:00 PM
June 16 2023 - June 22 2023
Series:FILM
The Beverly Theater Fri, Jun 16, 2023 6:30 PM
June 16 2023 - June 22 2023
Series:FILM
The Beverly Theater Sat, Jun 17, 2023 3:00 PM
June 16 2023 - June 22 2023
Series:FILM
The Beverly Theater Sat, Jun 17, 2023 8:00 PM
June 16 2023 - June 22 2023
Series:FILM
The Beverly Theater Sun, Jun 18, 2023 1:00 PM
June 16 2023 - June 22 2023
Series:FILM
The Beverly Theater Wed, Jun 21, 2023 5:00 PM
June 16 2023 - June 22 2023
Series:FILM
The Beverly Theater Thu, Jun 22, 2023 3:30 PM
June 16 2023 - June 22 2023
Series:FILM
The Beverly Theater Thu, Jun 22, 2023 6:15 PM
June 16 2023 - June 22 2023
Series:FILM
Film Info
Series:FILM

Description

2023, 109 minutes

Directed by Amanda Kim

 

“The George Washington of Video Art” ... “Cultural Terrorist” ... “Citizen Zero of the Electronic Superhighway” ... But who really was Nam June Paik, pillar of the American avant-garde in the 20th century and arguably the most famous Korean artist in modern history? Director Amanda Kim tells, for the first time, the story of Paik’s meteoric rise in the New York art scene and his Nostradamus-like visions of a future in which “everybody will have his own TV channel.” Thanks to social media, Paik’s future is now our present, and NAM JUNE PAIK: MOON IS THE OLDEST TV shows us how we got here.

 

Amanda Kim’s documentary charts Paik’s artistic evolution by tracing his formative education in Munich and his life-changing encounter with avant-garde musician John Cage, through his immigration to New York City and collaboration with the seminal experimental Fluxus movement, into his revolutionary work with video art—including his radical public television broadcasts of “Global Groove” in 1973 and “Good Morning, Mr. Orwell'' in 1984—and beyond into Paik’s lasting influence on the art world and his predictions of our technological future.