Most Popular Tony Conrad Trailers
Total trailers found: 50
01 January 1985
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
29 April 1963
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of indeterminate gender, vamping it up in front of the camera and participating in a mock advertisement for an indelible, heart-shaped brand of lipstick.
23 November 2013
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
15 October 2021
Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd Haynes, this kaleidoscopic oral history combines exclusive interviews with dazzling archival footage.
13 February 1966
A film consisting of alternating black and white frames.
07 January 1968
At the court of the Yellow Emperor, the Majoon Traveler & Lady Firefly appear in the Hall of Unconscious Magnetism.
08 March 2012
An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) and his wife and collaborator, Lady Jaye, centered around the daring sexual transformations the pair underwent for their 'Pandrogyne' project.
29 December 1963
Ron Rice's Chumlum is one of those films in which the conditions of its construction are integral to the experience of watching it.
11 April 2007
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's performances and films punctuate interviews with artists, critics, friends and foes to create an engaging portrait of the artist.
01 January 1961
A deliberately non-synchronous film, shot in 8mm with the sound on tape. Piero Heliczer reads his poem "The Autumn Feast," and the visuals interact with, but does not literally represent, what is read.
01 June 2016
Feature documentary on the pioneering life and work of iconoclastic filmmaker/musician/composer/artist Tony Conrad.
31 December 2007
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form.
01 January 1967
A Dracula parody where the camera moves to the eye of Count Flickerstein and the image changes to static-like patterns.
01 January 1974
Negative image is shot from a small rear-projection screen, the film comes out of the camera continuously (in the dark room) and is immediately processed, dried, and projected on the screen.
06 August 1997
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
01 January 2003
Tony Conrad provides useful & alternative grading tips for teachers. Made in Buffalo, NY.
01 January 1986
The visual track of Weak Bodies and Strong Wills comes from my 1973 film, Enlightenment through Experience: Interim Semester at Albright College.
01 January 1975
Made out of six patterns of alternating black and white imposed upon the full surface of the film strip.
06 June 2011
To make Loose Connection, Conrad built a camera that moved in two directions simultaneously: it could be rolled backward and forward on a waist-high rig made with baby carriage wheels, and it automatically rotated 360 degrees.
19 March 1970
“Coming Attractions” looks backward into the memories and forward into the future of Francis Francine, an elegantly dowdy transvestite of, and indeed beyond, a certain age.
10 January 1967
The story of Joan of Arc as applied to the present revolution in arts and more. The Gothic is applied to the War in Vietnam.
31 December 1970
Straight and Narrow is a study of subjective colour and visual rhythm, although it is printed on black and white film, the hypnotic pacing of the images will cause most viewers to experience a programmed gamut of hallucinatory colour effects.
01 January 2002
Fellow violinist and artist Tony Conrad, in collaboration with software engineer Tom Demeyer, made for Steina the instrument seen in this title.
01 January 2005
A short video by Tony Conrad.
01 January 1981
“A man, an accordion, a ladder, and a video camera. It’s as simple as that.” - Andrew Lampert
01 January 1988
A young woman, on the brink of sexual awakening, is shocked by the presence of her mother in bed. The imagined presence of the mother's body haunts all further sexual encounters and desire, directing and controlling the scene of passion.
01 January 2002
Mrs. Claus complains because Santa is away.
01 January 1973
A machine-gun film roll of 4-X negative film was exposed using pressure (hammering) and was flashed in its exploded physical configuration.
01 January 1985
A trisection of the spectators’ power over their own image language: word, trance, and command are installed as valences of the artist’s license, revealed as figures of parental authority.
01 January 1982
“A theory discourse among three participants, enacted in silhouette.” –Tony Conrad
01 January 1977
"A curiosity, Movie Show looks backward to the era of structural films, particularly Ken Jacobs’s Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son.
01 January 1987
Hey Bud begins with the suicide of Bud Dwyer, a government official who killed himself on television"
01 January 1980
This exquisite single shot is a complement to Combat Status Go. Here the viewer is positioned casually, even though every other element in the film experiences a painful precision: piano, gun, wardrobe; conversation directed at (and across the bow of) the viewer; timing, direction, gaze.
01 January 1988
If the intersection of desire and authority is phallus, the intersection of absence and vigilance is vagina.
01 January 1983
Using the devices of the war film genre,
Tony Conrad cast his film with friends and colleagues, such as Mike Kelley, David Antin, Sheldon Nodelman,
and Tony Oursler.
01 January 2012
Tony Conrad interviewed on the streets of NYC.
01 January 1977
“Cycles of 3s and 7s is a doubled statement. First and foremost, it is a commentary on computer art and the role of computers in video.
24 August 1971
Four Square is a film designed for four screens surrounding the audience. Through its spatial distribution of abstract image and sound it begins to build up a TIME/SPACE experience where the mental construction of the events do not clearly differentiate between separation/ distribution in time from separation/ distribution in space.
01 January 1977
"Originally intended as one scene in a larger work concerned with the metaphorical destruction of the viewer (through demolition of the camera), Concord Ultimatum unexpectedly became the occasion of the larger project’s demise.
01 January 2000
Tradition, mystical revelation, the passing on of family secrets--all that is lost in translation. In this magical fairytale Grandma Baba struggles with the impossibility of telling what needs to be told.
01 January 1977
Originally debuted in 1977, where it took the form of a dual slide projection with live piano accompaniment by the artist.
01 January 1985
This version of the Dick and Jane and Baby Sally tale was influenced by Dorothy Bloch, who stresses the role of childhood fear that the parent will kill the child.
01 January 2014
Based on the ideas of Russian philosopher, Nikolai Fedorov, Anton Vidokle’s film was shot in Siberia, Crimea, and Kazakhstan.
01 January 1963
The feature length Normal Love is Jack Smith’s follow up to his now legendary film Flaming Creatures.
01 January 2005
Stroboscopic vertical lines on a loop accompanying minimalist drone music compositions.
26 January 2017
In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer New York underground, experimental film, and performance legend Jack Smith, deals less with Smith’s life than with his work, analyzing Smith’s aesthetic idiosyncrasies in 21 thematic chapters.
10 January 2008
The latest in Marie Losier's ongoing series of film portraits of avant-garde directors (George and Mike Kuchar, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman), DreaMinimalist offers an insightful and hilarious encounter with Conrad as he sings, dances and remembers his youth and his association with Jack Smith.
02 April 1993
A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons, who also plays one of the lead parts.
01 January 1970
Initially titled "Books for all". A moving institutional commission in which the filmmakers lovingly portray New Jersey's public library system.
