NAM JUNE PAIK DOCUMENTARY LICENSES CLIPS FROM GIDEON BACHMANN AND JONAS MEKAS FILMS
/NAM JUNE PAIK: MOON IS THE OLDEST TV, a new feature documentary showcasing the artist’s strategic playfulness and immense creativity; a celebration of perhaps the most modern artist of all time. World premiere: 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
GME provided clips from Jonas Mekas’ ZEFIRO TORNA (1992), LOST LOST LOST (1976), SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ANDY WARHOL (1992), and RE: MACIUNAS AND FLUXUS (2011), as well as from Gideon Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968), for this documentary feature by Amanda Kim on the father of video art.
Coiner of the term “electronic superhighway,” Nam June Paik was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century who, after encountering avant-garde composer John Cage, became a member of the influential experimental art movement Fluxus, which created new forms of art and performance. His engagement with television and video art revolutionized how the world thinks of image-making in the electronic age.