Museum-Cinema: Cinematic Fridays at the Museum / Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV, 2023
Following the success of the series last year, Tel Aviv Museum of Art is once again presenting Cultural Fridays!
Almost every Friday, the finest films about art and culture will be screened, preceded by a short lecture by one of the Museum’s curators. This collaboration between the Museum, the EPOS International Festival of Art and Culture Films, the Third Ear, and the Docaviv Festival allows film aficionados to enjoy captivating and thought-provoking films from around the world, as well as a visit to exhibitions of master artists from Israel and abroad.
* Admission to the film includes a visit to the exhibitions at the Museum, subject to its opening hours
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Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV, 2023 | United States / South Korea, 107 min, English, German and Korean; Hebrew & English subtitles
Introduction: Tal Lanir, Curator of Interdisciplinary Art
He studied to become a classical pianist, had a PhD in philosophy, and spoke twenty languages—without being understood in any of them. Nam June Paik, the father of video art, was more than an artist: he was a prophet and relentless iconoclast. Born in Korea under the Japanese occupation, he produced art in Germany and in the United States—always with a focus on burning issues such as propaganda, oppression, and brainwashing. Described as a “cultural terrorist,” he embraced every new technology and promptly incorporated it into his art in subversive fashion. Amanda Kim’s film tells his life story, highlighting the artists who influenced his work (John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the Fluxus group, which he was a part of), through interviews, installation footage, and clips from films—proving that even fifty years later, the world has yet to catch up with Paik.
Film courtesy of docaviv.
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More films on Museum-Cinema:
1/11/24, 11:30 — Ada: My Mother the Architect, 2024 >
22/11/24, 11:30 — DEPOT—Reflecting Boijmans, 2023 >
6/12/24, 11:30 — Jeff Koons: A Private Portrait, 2023 >
20/12/24, 11:30 — Sagrada: The Mystery of Creation, 2012 >
3/1/25, 11:30 — And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine, 2023 >
17/1/25, 11:30 — Titian: The Empire of Color, 2022 >
7/2/25, 11:30 — Pearls on the Ocean Floor, 2010 >
21/2/25, 11:30 — Hong Kong Mixtape, 2023 >
21/3/25, 11:30 — Faces, Places, 2017 >
25/4/25, 11:30 — McQueen, 2018 >
9/5/25, 11:30 — The Museum and the Billionaire, 2017 >
23/5/25, 11:30 — The Salt of the Earth, 2014 >
6/6/25, 11:30 — Anselm, 2024 >
27/6/25, 11:30 — The Color of Ink, 2022 >