Nam June Paik: Moon Is The Oldest TV

In the organizer's words:

• US 2023
• 109 min
• Director: Amanda Kim
• FSK: not specified
• Documentary: Original version with German voiceover and subtitles where applicable

Screenings:

• Thu, September 11, 2025 - Tue, September 16, 2025 at 6:30 p.m.
• Sun., September 21, 2025 - Wed., September 24, 2025 at 5:00 p.m.

NAM JUNE PAIK: MOON IS THE OLDEST TV is a meditation on the paradoxical power of mass media to simultaneously fuel authoritarian tendencies and strengthen intercultural understanding.

Nam June Paik is a fixed star of the 20th century art avant-garde and probably the most famous Korean artist of modernism. His groundbreaking works were instrumental in the international breakthrough of Meidenkunst in the 1960s and 1970s. Early on, he envisioned a future in which "everyone will have their own television channel", and through social media his visions are now our reality. Now, for the first time, director Amanda Kim brings the story of Paik's rapid rise in the art world to the screen: from his training in Munich and his beginnings in the Fluxus movement to his emigration to New York and his establishment as a pioneer of video art.