Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

This film is seductive like all American Masters profiles. Their films are interesting and initially satisfying, but they leave an aftertaste of being suspiciously mild-very selective in what information they include (nothing troubling or disappointing about the subject) and thus emotionally manipulative. I wish they would allow more grit-to edit Fluxus artists as if they were a cuddly, harmonious crew is just weird. Ignoring Paik's wife Kubota was also bizarro. Nonetheless, Nam June Paik is such a fantastic subject that it's well worth watching this one just to see all the footage. They included a lot of video of him speaking, and he had an incredible way of speaking big thoughts succinctly and often humorously. A too shallow movie about an artist of real depth.