NYT Critic’s Pick – “Now that hand-held glowing screens have become as dominant as television once was, one misses that influential artist’s subversive spirit. But it’s on ample display in Amanda Kim’s new film “Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV,” which shows how Paik forged novel avenues of expression and communication in the televisual era.”

Nicolas Rapold
Mar 23, 2023

“What makes Kim’s film so powerful is an attempt to cast Paik both as a Futurist and as someone reflective about his past.”

Hua Hsu
Mar 29, 2023

“This is a wide-reaching, kinetic and vibrant documentary.”

Hanna Flint
May 23, 2023

“This very enjoyable film explores his extensive body of work, much of it daringly ahead of its time…”

Wendy Ide
May 21, 2023

“The film’s lucid account has visual energy without gimmicks.”

Edward Porter
May 19, 2023

“Nam June Paik was a Korean video art pioneer, experimentalist and avant garde disruptor whose amazing, anarchic career – which flourished in 1960s and 70s New York – is recounted in this amusing and engaging documentary…”

“The overwhelming sense of vocation necessary for such a life is almost awe-inspiring, although Paik’s own jokey, opaque persona seems to exist as a rebuke to any reaction as bourgeois as that.”

Peter Bradshaw
May 17, 2023

“Ms. Kim strives to remain true to her subject’s sensibilities — her imagistic narrative amounts to energetic homage — and this includes not romanticizing his life.”

John Anderson
May 11, 2023

“Kim whips up a zippy, playful mood her subject would probably have enjoyed. But she can do gravity too: teasing out the wider history that linked artist, art and things to come.”

Danny Leigh
May 18, 2023

“A tantalizing portrait of Nam June Paik, the revolutionary Korean-born video artist who, in the late ’60s and ’70s, did nothing less than invent an art form.”

Owen Gleiberman
Jan 27, 2023