Tony Conrad

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...

“A theory discourse among three participants, enacted in silhouette.” –Tony Conrad

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

Originally debuted in 1977, where it took the form of a dual slide projection with live piano accompaniment by the artist. In the 2012 installation...

The latest in Marie Losier's ongoing series of film portraits of avant-garde directors (George and Mike Kuchar, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman),...

Tony Conrad interviewed on the streets of NYC.

Feature documentary on the pioneering life and work of iconoclastic filmmaker/musician/composer/artist Tony Conrad.

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

The feature length Normal Love is Jack Smith’s follow up to his now legendary film Flaming Creatures. This vivid, full-color homage to B-movies...

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...

A trisection of the spectators’ power over their own image language: word, trance, and command are installed as valences of the artist’s...

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. The film is experimental...

At the court of the Yellow Emperor, the Majoon Traveler & Lady Firefly appear in the Hall of Unconscious Magnetism.

In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer New York underground, experimental film, and...

“A man, an accordion, a ladder, and a video camera. It’s as simple as that.” - Andrew Lampert

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

Tradition, mystical revelation, the passing on of family secrets--all that is lost in translation. In this magical fairytale Grandma Baba struggles...

Fellow violinist and artist Tony Conrad, in collaboration with software engineer Tom Demeyer, made for Steina the instrument seen in this title....

An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing...

A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...

Mrs. Claus complains because Santa is away.

Tony Conrad provides useful & alternative grading tips for teachers. Made in Buffalo, NY.

Mrs. Claus complains because Santa is away.

Tony Conrad provides useful & alternative grading tips for teachers. Made in Buffalo, NY.

Originally debuted in 1977, where it took the form of a dual slide projection with live piano accompaniment by the artist. In the 2012 installation...

Originally debuted in 1977, where it took the form of a dual slide projection with live piano accompaniment by the artist. In the 2012 installation...

Originally debuted in 1977, where it took the form of a dual slide projection with live piano accompaniment by the artist. In the 2012 installation...

A film consisting of alternating black and white frames.

Initially titled "Books for all". A moving institutional commission in which the filmmakers lovingly portray New Jersey's public library system.

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, ...

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...

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...

A machine-gun film roll of 4-X negative film was exposed using pressure (hammering) and was flashed in its exploded physical configuration.

A short video by Tony Conrad.

Hey Bud begins with the suicide of Bud Dwyer, a government official who killed himself on television. Writes Zando: "I view the suicide as...

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...

Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously...

A Dracula parody where the camera moves to the eye of Count Flickerstein and the image changes to static-like patterns.

Ron Rice's Chumlum is one of those films in which the conditions of its construction are integral to the experience of watching it. It is a record of...

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...

Made out of six patterns of alternating black and white imposed upon the full surface of the film strip.

"Originally intended as one scene in a larger work concerned with the metaphorical destruction of the viewer (through demolition of the camera),...

Stroboscopic vertical lines on a loop accompanying minimalist drone music compositions.

“A theory discourse among three participants, enacted in silhouette.” –Tony Conrad

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. The film is experimental...

The visual track of Weak Bodies and Strong Wills comes from my 1973 film, Enlightenment through Experience: Interim Semester at Albright College. The...

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...

A trisection of the spectators’ power over their own image language: word, trance, and command are installed as valences of the artist’s...

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...

If the intersection of desire and authority is phallus, the intersection of absence and vigilance is vagina. The tape’s laconic title (I saw, I...

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...

Ron Rice's Chumlum is one of those films in which the conditions of its construction are integral to the experience of watching it. It is a record of...

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. The film is experimental...

“A man, an accordion, a ladder, and a video camera. It’s as simple as that.” - Andrew Lampert

"A curiosity, Movie Show looks backward to the era of structural films, particularly Ken Jacobs’s Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son. The clip of...

“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....

Based on the ideas of Russian philosopher, Nikolai Fedorov, Anton Vidokle’s film was shot in Siberia, Crimea, and Kazakhstan. Fedorov, like...

“Coming Attractions” looks backward into the memories and forward into the future of Francis Francine, an elegantly dowdy transvestite...

The latest in Marie Losier's ongoing series of film portraits of avant-garde directors (George and Mike Kuchar, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman),...

Four Square is a film designed for four screens surrounding the audience. Through its spatial distribution of abstract image and sound it begins to...

A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...