一战以前,影院的的艺术家和诗人往往都是激进分子,他们热衷于拍电影并把这种艺术形式向新的方向发展,他们被排除在艺术领域和电影工厂之外,像是被困在一座孤岛上,他们大胆的创造出自己的电影世界并拥有一个自己的工作网络,并作出了不可估量且有力的贡献
This feature-length documentary provides a vivid, eye-opening, and appropriately personal introduction to one of the most important, yet perpetually marginalized, realms of filmmaking: avant-garde cinema.
Achieving the near-impossible task of doing justice in ...
Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of independent U.S. movies; founder and director of the New York Anthology Film Archive.
My film diaries 1970-1979: my marriage, children are born, you see them growing up. Footage of daily life, fragments of happiness and beauty, trips to France, Italy, Spain, Austria. Seasons of the year as they pass through New York. Friends, home life, nature, unending search for moments of beauty and celebration of life friendships, feelings, brief moments of happiness. The fi...
"Until Rameau's Nephew... no one has exhibited a film that deals so thoroughly with the range of perceptual problems elicited by the sound cinema." (M. Keller, Chicago Film Centre)
"...an achievement of the originality and brilliance of Wavelength. Snow embraces the problems on intimacy of language and thought with such variety, clarity and invention and high humour that again ...
31:36, 1984, color, sound
In this videotape, Nam June Paik pays tribute to a number of pop stars in his pan-cultural pantheon. He re-enacts certain Fluxus musical performances of the 1960s and 70s including those with the destruction of a piano and the concert with Charlotte Moorman on the cello.
A synthesised Sakamoto portrait, an interview with Charlotte Moorman, interviews w...
1973, re-edited 1976, 29:02 min, color, sound
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 influences on Paik's work, as well as his friend and frequent collaborator. In this multifaceted portrait, Paik creates a pastiche of Cage's performances and anecdotes, interviews with ...
Nam June Paik war von 1979 bis 1995 Professor an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Sein Schaffen wurde mit zahlreichen Einzelausstellungen und Preisen gewürdigt. Dreimal nahm er an der documenta in Kassel teil. 1993 gestaltete er mit dem Künstler Hans Haacke den deutschen Pavillon auf der Biennale von Venedig, der mit dem Goldenen Löwen für den besten Länderpavillon ausgezeichnet w...