Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV

“It’s essential viewing. Paik was a true visionary who foresaw the virtual world we now live in” – Hollywood Reporter

A timely meditation on the contradictory ways in which technology can be used, Amanda Kim’s documentary Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV tells of Paik’s meteoric rise in the New York art scene and his predictions of our technologically dependent future, in which “everybody will have his own TV channel.”

The film traces Paik’s formative education in Munich, his life-changing encounter with avant-garde musician John Cage, his move to New York City and collaboration with the seminal experimental Fluxus movement, and of course his revolutionary work with technology, in particular video art—including his radical public television broadcasts of Global Groove in 1973 and Good Morning, Mr. Orwell in 1984.

 

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