
The title of Nam June Pike Zen for Film can also be translated as «Zen for film» or «Zen for film». It’s a gesture of radical modernism in the field of screen art. The artist is charging the projector with a whole roll of film that doesn’t have an image, it’s just lit up. The screen becomes a meeting place with the absolute expression of film genius, pure light.


Cokes with film and boxing to store Pike’s movie. It was created as part of the Fluxfilm project.

We have June Pike at the New Cinema Festival in New York City. 1965
As part of the A.S. Pushkin-Alexander Pershew project «100 Ways to Live a Minute», the GMRIA offers the viewer to move inside the work of the pioneer of media art, Nam June Pike. Is this a clean, empty space where nothing happens… or does it just seem like it at first sight? To learn more, look and listen:
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