NAM JUNE PAIK: MOON IS THE OLDEST TV – Dokumentarfilm über den legendären Pionier der Videokunst

In the organizer's words:

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 media art 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.

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. The film combines rarely seen archive footage and excerpts from Nam June Paik's texts with encounters with his companions such as John Cage, Marina Abramović, Joseph Beuys, Charlotte Moorman and Peter Brötzmann.

USA 2023, FSK: from 12 years, original version (English/Korean) with German subtitles, Os. Premiere, 109 min., Director: Amanda Kim. Texts written by Nam June Paik, read by Steven Yeun.

In cooperation with the Experimentalfilm Workshop e.V.

seated, free choice of seats

Price information:

Advance booking: € 6.00 Box Office: € 6.00 | € 5.00