Missa of Zen

In Missa of Zen, a TV screen, filmed from an extremely oblique angle, appears as a ghostly, flickering sliver at the side of a darkened frame. The images playing across its surface are rendered abstract by the perspective: we witness the transmission of information, but at a great distance. Isolated in silence and darkness, the television set slips into the realm of the unheimlich — an uncanny object, at once familiar and unfamiliar. Situating mediated America at the crossroads of missa — Latin for the Christian mass — and Zen Buddhism, Paik highlights the connections between mass culture and the transcendental.

Ordering & Fees

  

Educational Purchase

DVD NTSC

$420.00

 

Archival Purchase

BetaSP NTSC

$1,100.00

 

BetaSP PAL

$1,350.00

 

Digital Beta NTSC

$1,600.00

 

Digital Beta PAL

$2,000.00