Button Happening
1965, English. Directed by Nam June Paik.
Button Happening is Nam June Paik's earliest extant tape, and possibly his first tape ever. Recorded in 1965 on the day he acquired his first Sony Portapak camera, this previously unknown work has recently been rediscovered and restored. Recorded on computer tape, this technically fragile piece documents a single performance action — Paik buttoning and unbuttoning his jacket. A spirit of conceptual Fluxus humor underlies this seminal recording.
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Button Happening isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1965. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Button Happening (1965) was directed by Nam June Paik.