Movies

  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    71997HD

    Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1968
    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    7.31968HD

    Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family,...

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
  • 1969
    Videotape Study No. 3

    Videotape Study No. 3

    Videotape Study No. 3

    4.51969HD

    Part of a collection of restored early works by Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut, this piece is historically significant as well as remarkably prescient....

    Videotape Study No. 3
  • 1969
    Seminar

    Seminar

    Seminar

    01969HD

    An unreleased diary film shot during the Fairleigh-Dickinson Artist Seminar simultaneous to the production of Back and Forth by Michael Snow.

    Seminar
  • 1970
    The Stone Age

    The Stone Age

    The Stone Age

    01970HD

    "The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante

    The Stone Age
  • 1972
    Electronic Moon No. 2

    Electronic Moon No. 2

    Electronic Moon No. 2

    6.51972HD

    Part of the "Video-Film Concert" collection released by EAI. From 1966 - 1972.

    Electronic Moon No. 2
  • 1966
    Us Down by the Riverside

    Us Down by the Riverside

    Us Down by the Riverside

    01966HD

    USCO light, Beatles sound. A visionary realization of the USCO Riverside Museum installation exhibition in New York, the show which introduced the...

    Us Down by the Riverside
  • 1968
    Beatles Electroniques

    Beatles Electroniques

    Beatles Electroniques

    81968HD

    Part of a collection of restored early works by Nam June Paik, the haunting Beatles Electronique reveals Paik's engagement with manipulation of pop...

    Beatles Electroniques
  • 1973
    26'1.1499

    26'1.1499" For A String Player

    26'1.1499" For A String Player

    01973HD

    This tape is Jud Yalkut's video realization of Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik's concert performance of John Cage's composition 26'1.1499" For...

    26'1.1499
  • 1967
    Kusama's Self-Obliteration

    Kusama's Self-Obliteration

    Kusama's Self-Obliteration

    5.61967HD

    A film exploration of the work and aesthetic concepts of Yayoi Kusama, painter, sculptor, and environmentalist, conceived in terms of an intense...

    Kusama's Self-Obliteration
  • 1994
    The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties

    The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties

    The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties

    01994HD

    A portrait of Nam June Paik produced as a 'video catalog' for the exhibition 'The Electronic Super Highway', which premiered at The Museum of Art in...

    The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties
  • 1976
    A Tribute to John Cage

    A Tribute to John Cage

    A Tribute to John Cage

    61976HD

    A Tribute to John Cage is Paik's homage to avant-garde composer John Cage. A major figure in contemporary art and music, Cage was one of the primary...

    A Tribute to John Cage
  • 1972
    Cinema Metaphysique No. 1-5

    Cinema Metaphysique No. 1-5

    Cinema Metaphysique No. 1-5

    01972HD

    This early work belongs in the company of Paik and Yalkut's classic collaborative "video-films," including Video Tape Study No. 3, Beatles...

    Cinema Metaphysique No. 1-5
  • 1972
    Television as a Creative Medium

    Television as a Creative Medium

    Television as a Creative Medium

    01972HD

    In 1969, Howard Wise presented the landmark exhibition TV as a Creative Medium at his eponymous gallery on 57th Street in New York. The exhibition is...

    Television as a Creative Medium
  • 1970
    Aquarian Rushes

    Aquarian Rushes

    Aquarian Rushes

    61970HD

    "Comprises film and videotape from the August (1969) epic freak-out in New York State (White Lake- "Woodstock") with all the groups you can name, and...

    Aquarian Rushes
  • 1971
    Electronic Fables

    Electronic Fables

    Electronic Fables

    01971HD

    Part of a restored collection of rare early works by Nam June Paik, Electronic Fables is an example of Paik's early improvisations and experiments...

    Electronic Fables
  • 1965
    Diffraction Film

    Diffraction Film

    Diffraction Film

    01965HD

    "This sensuous sea of color, motion, light that seems to surround us completely and we swim in it almost bodily and it is like going through the most...

    Diffraction Film
  • 1972
    Waiting for Commercials

    Waiting for Commercials

    Waiting for Commercials

    101972HD

    Waiting for Commercials is a hilarious compendium of Japanese TV commercials. "Beckett wrote 'Waiting for Godot' twenty years ago, but instead of...

    Waiting for Commercials
  • 1973
    Global Groove

    Global Groove

    Global Groove

    7.71973HD

    Global Groove was a collaborative piece by Nam June Paik and John Godfrey. Paik, amongst other artists who shared the same vision in the 1960s, saw...

    Global Groove
  • 1972
    Metamedia: A Film Journal of Intermedia and the Avant-Garde 1966-1970

    Metamedia: A Film Journal of Intermedia and the Avant-Garde 1966-1970

    Metamedia: A Film Journal of Intermedia and the Avant-Garde 1966-1970

    01972HD

    Timothy Leary at the Village Theatre, Kusama at the Cooper Square Playhouse, Hermann Nitsch “Orgy-Mystery” at the Filmmakers’...

    Metamedia: A Film Journal of Intermedia and the Avant-Garde 1966-1970