Shigeko Kubota Movies

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

The influence of Jewish fathers on their sons and the complexity of familial relationships are explored in a witty, poignant portrait of two artists....

Video began as a medium that inspired discovery. This art documentary traces the expressive roots of “media art” in Japan — works...

An intimate and humorous portrait of her husband, artist Nam June Paik, as he undergoes physical therapy after an illness.

Kubota's tribute to her husband, artist Nam June Paik, who died at their home in Miami in January 2006.

Nam June Paik and Shigeko Kubota remix interviews of Marcel Duchamp and Russell Connor.

Sistine Chapel is an audio-visual collage of new footage and samples from Paik’s past videos, which featured many of his friends,...

"Father, why did you die?" With this deeply intimate statement of grief, Kubota mourns the death of her father. Video and television are central to...

Suite 212 is Paik's "personal New York sketchbook," an electronic collage that presents multiple perspectives of New York's media landscape as a...

Kubota continues her ongoing video diary project. Here she reflects on her relationship with her husband Nam June Paik.

Shigeko Kubota and Maxi Cohen discuss Anthology Film Archive’s Video Art programming.

Access to video technology had largely been limited to corporate-run TV studios until the Sony Portapak, a battery-powered video tape recorder that...

Single channel video (color; sound; 1984)

Black & White Video

A single-channel version of Kubota's installation of the same name, Rock Video: Cherry Blossom is a lyrical fusion of nature and technology. Branches...

Meta-Marcel: Window (Flowers) adapts Marcel Duchamp’s ready-made Fresh Window (1920/1964) to the realm of film. [Overview courtesy of TWO x TWO...

Kubota narrates this surrealistic video diary of her month-long sojourn with a Navajo family on a reservation in Chinle, Arizona. Captures footage of...

This chapter of Kubota's ongoing video journal chronicles the aftermath of a flood that destroyed Kubota and Nam June Paik's loft studio, after a...

Over the past several decades, Shigeko Kubota has produced a significant body of video installation work. Kubota's sculptural installations include...

This early video document is Kubota's answer to the question, "What happens if you travel with a portapak instead of American Express through...