Nam June Paik
Directing
July 20, 1932
Died January 29, 2006 (73 years old)
Gyeongseong, South Korea [now Seoul]
38
Acting Credits
43
Directed
Biography
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."
Known For
Filmography
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023
as Self (archive footage)
6.8
Tapes
2020
Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
2019
George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
2018
as Self (archive footage)
7
Re: Maciunas and Fluxus
2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
as Himself (archive footage)
6.8
Joseph Beuys - Coyote III
2008
as Himself
365 Day Project
2007
as Self
10
Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master
2006
as Self (archive footage)
Winter in Miami 2005
2006
as Self
Nam June Paik: The Tiger Lives
2003
as Self
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
as Self
7.8
April is the Cruelest Month
1999
as Self
Sexual Healing
1998
as Self
"Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman
1995
5.7
The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties
1994
as Self
The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus
1993
as Self
7
Back to Fucking Cambridge
1987
as Anton von Webern
8
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
as Self (archive footage)
8.4
Bye Bye Kipling
1986
as Self
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
All Star Video
1985
as Self
6.5
Persistence of Vision
1984
as Self
Trip to Korea
1984
Bonjour Nam June Paik I
1982
Flux-Concert
1979
as Self
Nam June Paik: The Good Conscience of the Avant Garde
1977
as Self
A Tribute to John Cage
1976
6
Video: The New Wave
1975
Nam June Paik: Edited for Television
1975
as Self
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
1974
as Tom
7.8
26'1.1499" For A String Player
1973
Seminar
1969
as Self
Kunst und Ketchup
1966
P+A-I(k)
1966
Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes
1964
Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan
1964
Nam June Paik
1962
as Self