Directing

Nam June Paik

Born 1932-07-20 · Gyeongseong, South Korea [now Seoul]

Died 2006-01-29

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."

Credits

Newest first

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Tapes
2020
Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
2019
George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
as Himself (archive footage)
2011
Re: Maciunas and Fluxus
2011
Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970
Director
2010
Joseph Beuys - Coyote III
as Himself
2008
365 Day Project
as Self
2007
Nam June Paik's Piano Piece
2006
Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master
as Self (archive footage)
2006
Winter in Miami 2005
as Self
2006
Nam June Paik: The Tiger Lives
as Self
2003
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
as Self
2000
Analogue Assemblage
Director
2000
April is the Cruelest Month
as Self
1999
Laboratorium Anthology
1999
Sexual Healing
as Self
1998
"Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman
1995
"Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman
Director
1995
The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties
as Self
1994
Sistine Chapel
Director
1993
Sistine Chapel
Creator
1993
Sistine Chapel
Art Direction
1993
Sistine Chapel
Editor
1993
The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus
as Self
1993
Deoksu Palace
Director
1992
Video Commune (Beatles from Beginning to End)
Director
1992
Beuys
Director
1990
Living with the Living Theatre
Director
1989
One Candle, One Projection
Director
1988
Wrap around the World
Director
1988
Back to Fucking Cambridge
as Anton von Webern
1987
Bye Bye Kipling
as Self
1986
Bye Bye Kipling
Director
1986
Adelic Penguins
Art Direction
1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage)
1986
Butterfly
Director
1986
All Star Video
as Self
1985
All Star Video
Director
1985
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
Trip to Korea
1984
Persistence of Vision
as Self
1984
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
Director
1984
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
Writer
1984
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
Editor
1984
Bonjour Nam June Paik I
1982
Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint
Director
1982
Lake Placid '80
Director
1980
Flux-Concert
as Self
1979
Media Shuttle: New York - Moscow
Director
1978
Merce by Merce by Paik
Director
1978
Merce by Merce by Paik Part Two: Merce and Marcel
Director
1978
Nam June Paik: The Good Conscience of the Avant Garde
as Self
1977
Guadalcanal Requiem
Director
1977
A Tribute to John Cage
1976
A Tribute to John Cage
Director
1976
Video: The New Wave
1975
Nam June Paik: Edited for Television
as Self
1975
Suite 212
Director
1974
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
as Tom
1974
TV Buddha
Director
1974
TV Garden
Director
1974
26'1.1499" For A String Player
1973
Global Groove
Director
1973
Electronic Yoga
Director
1972
Waiting for Commercials
Director
1972
Electronic Moon No. 2
Director
1972
Cinema Metaphysique No. 1-5
Director
1972
Electronic Fables
Director
1971
TV Cello Premiere
Director
1971
Videotape Study No. 3
Director
1969
Electronic Opera no. 1
Director
1969
The Medium Is the Medium
Director
1969
Seminar
as Self
1969
9/23/69: Experiment with David Atwood
Director
1969
Beatles Electroniques
Director
1968
Early Color TV Manipulations
Director
1968
Missa of Zen
Director
1967
Digital Experiment at Bell Labs
Director
1967