If it's on TV, it might be real right?
Have you heard of Nam June Paik? Do you want to know about Nam June Paik? Then this is the documentary for you. He was a Korean that left Korea when he could. He learnt classical music, was going to be a pianist, then encountered John Cage and had his eyes opened. Then he saw TV and thought about what he could do with that. Which was a lot, and not what people expected.
There's outsider art, there's avant garde... and this is a perfect representation of that. Someone who did things differently, mixed media in unusual ways, and caused people to go "...what?"... but also hook into it. (I was quite taken with the moments we saw of Experiments With David Atwood.)
This is one of those situations where I wouldn't have known anything about him, but good documentary is a great way into it. And I now know a little something. Score!
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