Director Amanda Kim tells the story of Nam June Paik’s meteoric rise in the New York art scene and his Nostradamus-like visions of a future in which “everybody will have his own TV channel”. Thanks to social media, Paik’s future is now our present, and Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV shows us how we got here. The documentary charts Paik’s artistic evolution, tracing his formative education in Munich and his life-changing encounter with avant-garde musician John Cage through to his migration to New York City and his revolutionary work with video art and beyond, to show Paik’s lasting influence on the art world and his predictions of our technological future.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and emerging. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
