Thanks to social media, artist Nam June Paik’s future is now our present. Nam June Paik: Moon Is The Oldest TV shows us how we got here.
Amanda Kim’s documentary charts Paik’s artistic evolution with an extensive archive of performance footage, original interviews from Paik’s contemporaries and collaborators, and a voiceover narration of Nam June Paik’s writings read by Executive Producer Steven Yeun (Minari, Nope).
Nam June Paik: Moon Is The Oldest TV is a timely meditation on the contradictory ways in which technology elicits both fascist tendencies and intercultural understanding.