Tony Conrad Movies

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

“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....

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

Tony Conrad interviewed on the streets of NYC.

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

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...

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...

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

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