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“NAM JUNE PAIK: LESSONS FROM THE VIDEO MASTER” DVD
Video Art Featurette plus “Bonus Art Video” “#1 Video Artist” and DVD bonuses
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by Skip Blumberg & 63 collaborators
“A mistake is not a mistake.” “The only way to win a race is to run alone.”
“If you want to do it, you can do it.”
~ Nam June Paik
New York City's art community remembers the fun-loving and wise #1 video artist. |
The Video Art Featurette “Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master” (47:15), recorded at the famed artist's memorial service, contains 46 short visually-stylized often-humorous insightful interviews with friends, colleagues, collaborators and protégées; including artists Yoko Ono, Merce Cunningham, Carolee Schneeman, Davidson Gigliotti (Videofreex), Beryl Korot, Liz Phillips, Nina Sobell, Bill Viola, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Blondell Cummings, Kit Fitzgerald, and, of course, Shigeko Kubota; curators John Hanhardt (Guggenheim Museum), Wulf Herzogenrath (Kunsthalle Bremen), Barbara London and Sally Berger (MoMA); as well as NJP’s nephew Ken Paik Hakuta. And many more.
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“Bonus Art Video” (36:50), contains 17 additional interviews including video artists Mary Lucier, Dara Birnbaum, David Cort (Videofreex), Ralph Hocking (Experimental TV Center), Ira Schneider (Raindance/Radical Software), the first video art curator David Ross, and independent film pioneer Jonas Mekas, as well as a video-within-a-video of Yoko Ono’s special performance for NJP at the Guggenheim Museum.
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“#1 Video Artist” is a G-rated 9-minute edit of the Featurette especially edited for students.
Nam June Paik’s work broke the rules of art, television, graphics, and, because TV can use all possible media and information, practically everything else, too.
Fast-moving and entertaining for all audiences, the DVD is also an excellent learning tool and research source for media artists, art historians and students as well as an encyclopedia of special effects, filters, colorizing, transitions, handheld camera, interviewing and titling techniques.
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The DVD is produced by NJP’s friend and colleague, Skip Blumberg, himself one of the first generation of video artists and an award-winning documentary videomaker. His videos are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix, Video Data Bank, and the Museum of Modern Art.
Made possible with public funds from the NYS Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and support from the Experimental TV Center.
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NAM JUNE PAIK: LESSONS FROM THE VIDEO MASTER, 2006
Skip Blumberg is a master of on-the-street video recording--largely due to his ability to engage his subjects form behind the camera. In this video, he engages artists Yoko Ono, Carolee Schneemann, Beryl Korot, Bill Viola, and others at the funeral of Nam June Paik. A fitting tribute to Nam June in his own medium.
Distributors
[+] Museum of Modern Art
[+] Electronic Arts Intermix
[+] Video Data Bank
[+] Facets Multi Media
[+] In Motion Productions, Inc.
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