synopsis
This video portrait of Nam June Paik was made during Bielický’s studies in Düsseldorf. Paik’s gaze steadily confronts the lens of a camera attached to the iconic Paik-Abe video synthesizer, his face dissolving in the mutating video signal.
biography
Michael Bielický is a Prague native who has lived in Germany since 1969. He belongs to the generation of visual artists from the 1980s who adopted video as their medium. He has created single-channel works, installations, and video sculptures that make use of a television signal. His artistic conception combines information technology with magic, Kabbalah, and the history of cinema. In 1991 he co-founded the School of New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, which he led until 2006. He is now a professor and the head of the Department of New Media at HfG Karlsruhe.
more about film
| director: | Michael Bielický |
Film at festival
| premiere type: | The film already had its Czech Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2022 |
| section: | Fascinations: Michael Bielický |
| language: | No Dialogue |
| subtitles: | No Subtitle |
Info
| director: | Michael Bielický |
| original title: | Paik (Nein, Ich bin ein Experimentalist) |
| country: | Germany |
| year: | 1986 |
| running time: | 4 min. |
