Jud Yalkut Movies

  • 1967
    Missa of Zen

    Missa of Zen

    Missa of Zen

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    In Missa of Zen, a TV screen, filmed from an extremely oblique angle, appears as a ghostly, flickering sliver at the side of a darkened frame. The...

    Missa of Zen
  • 1972
    Cinema Metaphysique No. 1-5

    Cinema Metaphysique No. 1-5

    Cinema Metaphysique No. 1-5

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    This early work belongs in the company of Paik and Yalkut's classic collaborative "video-films," including Video Tape Study No. 3, Beatles...

    Cinema Metaphysique No. 1-5
  • 1969
    Beatles Electroniques

    Beatles Electroniques

    Beatles Electroniques

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    Part of a collection of restored early works by Nam June Paik, the haunting Beatles Electronique reveals Paik's engagement with manipulation of pop...

    Beatles Electroniques
  • 1971
    TV Cello Premiere

    TV Cello Premiere

    TV Cello Premiere

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    TV Cello Premiere is a silent film documentation of Charlotte Moorman in her first performance on Paik's eponymous TV Cello at the Bonino Gallery in...

    TV Cello Premiere
  • 1968
    Early Color TV Manipulations

    Early Color TV Manipulations

    Early Color TV Manipulations

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    Marked by a playful, irreverent sense of improvisation and experimentation, these experiments with image manipulation and synthesis form a link...

    Early Color TV Manipulations
  • 1972
    Television as a Creative Medium

    Television as a Creative Medium

    Television as a Creative Medium

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    In 1969, Howard Wise presented the landmark exhibition TV as a Creative Medium at his eponymous gallery on 57th Street in New York. The exhibition is...

    Television as a Creative Medium
  • 1966
    P+A-I(k)

    P+A-I(k)

    P+A-I(k)

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    1966, 16mm film on video, black-and-white and color; 10 minutes

    P+A-I(k)
  • 1973
    China Cat Sunflower

    China Cat Sunflower

    China Cat Sunflower

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    As though one gradually becomes aware of the music of the universe, the Dead break into consciousness as their images merge with the oneness of...

    China Cat Sunflower
  • 1972
    Electronic Moon No. 2

    Electronic Moon No. 2

    Electronic Moon No. 2

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    Part of the "Video-Film Concert" collection released by EAI. From 1966 - 1972.

    Electronic Moon No. 2
  • 1973
    Global Groove

    Global Groove

    Global Groove

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    Global Groove was a collaborative piece by Nam June Paik and John Godfrey. Paik, amongst other artists who shared the same vision in the 1960s, saw...

    Global Groove
  • 1972
    Waiting for Commercials

    Waiting for Commercials

    Waiting for Commercials

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    Waiting for Commercials is a hilarious compendium of Japanese TV commercials. "Beckett wrote 'Waiting for Godot' twenty years ago, but instead of...

    Waiting for Commercials
  • 1972
    Astrolabe of God

    Astrolabe of God

    Astrolabe of God

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    A hybrid film-video work that combines moving image technologies, electronic manipulations, performance and installation.

    Astrolabe of God
  • 1982
    Self Portrait 2

    Self Portrait 2

    Self Portrait 2

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    Loops within loops, audio and video mutually affective and early computer-generated delay and window effects. -ETC

    Self Portrait 2
  • 1974
    Suite 212

    Suite 212

    Suite 212

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    Suite 212 is Paik's "personal New York sketchbook," an electronic collage that presents multiple perspectives of New York's media landscape as a...

    Suite 212
  • 2002
    Light Display: Color

    Light Display: Color

    Light Display: Color

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    Yalkut creates a poetic homage to Lazlo Moholy-Nagy's pioneering 1930 kinetic sculpture Light-Space Modulator, which was reconstructed at the Howard...

    Light Display: Color
  • 1966
    D.M.T.

    D.M.T.

    D.M.T.

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    Credits: Slides by Jackie Cassen. Choreography by Mary McKay and danced by her. Sound: Bach, The Beatles, and the voice of Ralph Metzner reading a...

    D.M.T.
  • 1967
    Naked Radio Happening

    Naked Radio Happening

    Naked Radio Happening

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    Unused material: Yalkut documented Kusama's Body Festivals throughout the so-called Summer of Love, including one staged in the studio of WBAI and...

    Naked Radio Happening
  • 1973
    The Whirling Ecstasy

    The Whirling Ecstasy

    The Whirling Ecstasy

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    Video computer imagery inspired by Sufi poet Jala al-Din Rumi, Father of the Whirling Dervishes.

    The Whirling Ecstasy
  • 1976
    A Tribute to John Cage

    A Tribute to John Cage

    A Tribute to John Cage

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    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...

    A Tribute to John Cage
  • 1992
    Video Commune (Beatles from Beginning to End)

    Video Commune (Beatles from Beginning to End)

    Video Commune (Beatles from Beginning to End)

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    Video Commune is Jud Yalkut's free-form documentation of Nam June Paik's first interactive television "performance" at the public television station...

    Video Commune (Beatles from Beginning to End)