Jud Yalkut

Biography

Jud Yalkut was a pioneering intermedia artist and filmmaker. His remarkable body of moving image work, which spanned fifty years, ranged from early performance renderings and poetic filmic experiments to a series of groundbreaking hybrid video-film collaborations with Nam June Paik. Transcending and transforming media as he explored and merged film, video, expanded cinema, electronic manipulations, performance and installation, Yalkut created and collaborated on seminal intermedia projects with numerous artists, filmmakers, musicians and performers in the avant-garde and experimental scenes.

Directed

1. Kusama's Self-Obliteration (1967) — Director
2. Beatles Electroniques (1969) — Director
3. Videotape Study No. 3 (1967) — Director
4. Electronic Moon No. 2 (1966) — Director
5. Waiting for Commercials (1966) — Director
6. Electronic Yoga (1972) — Director
7. Aquarian Rushes (1970) — Director
8. Planes (1968) — Director
9. GHOST REV (1963) — Director
10. Some Manipulations (1969) — Director
11. Opera Sextronique (1967) — Director
12. Turn Turn Turn (1966) — Director
13. Electronic Fables (1965) — Director
14. Seminar (1969) — Director
15. The Whirling Ecstasy (1973) — Director
16. D.M.T. (1966) — Director
17. Us Down by the Riverside (1966) — Director
18. Astrolabe of God (1972) — Director
19. John Cage Mushroom Hunting in Stony Point (1973) — Director
20. P+A-I(k) (1966) — Director
21. Missa of Zen (1967) — Director
22. Cinema Metaphysique No. 1-5 (1972) — Director
23. The Godz (1967) — Director
24. 7th Annual New York Avant Garde Festival (1969) — Director
25. 4th Annual New York Avant Garde Festival (1972) — Director
26. Diffraction Film (1965) — Director
27. China Cat Sunflower (1973) — Director
28. Slop Print (1973) — Director
29. Light Display: Color (2002) — Director
30. Self Portrait 2 (1982) — Director
31. Exprmntl 1967 (1968) — Director
32. 26'1.1499" For A String Player (1973) — Director
33. Television as a Creative Medium (1972) — Director
34. Video Commune (Beatles from Beginning to End) (1992) — Director
35. TV Cello Premiere (1971) — Director
36. Early Color TV Manipulations (1968) — Director
37. Clarence (1968) — Director
38. The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties (1994) — Director
39. Le Parc (1966) — Director
40. Naked Radio Happening (1967) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) — Self
2. Global Groove (1973)
3. The Stone Age (1970)