Tony Conrad Movies
- 1963

Flaming Creatures
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Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously...
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- 2007

365 Day Project
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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...
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- 2017

Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
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In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer New York underground, experimental film, and...
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- 2012

The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye6.92012HD
An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing...
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- 2007

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis6.62007HD
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...
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- 1963

Normal Love
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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...
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- 1968

The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
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At the court of the Yellow Emperor, the Majoon Traveler & Lady Firefly appear in the Hall of Unconscious Magnetism.
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- 2016

Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present
Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present7.62016HD
Feature documentary on the pioneering life and work of iconoclastic filmmaker/musician/composer/artist Tony Conrad.
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- 1968

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches7.41968HD
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family,...
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- 2021

The Velvet Underground
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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...
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- 1967

Joan of Arc
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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...
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- 1975

Articulation of Boolean Algebra for Film Opticals
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Made out of six patterns of alternating black and white imposed upon the full surface of the film strip.
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- 2005

Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain
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Stroboscopic vertical lines on a loop accompanying minimalist drone music compositions.
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- 1966

The Flicker
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A film consisting of alternating black and white frames.
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- 1982

Palace of Error
Palace of Error01982HD
“A theory discourse among three participants, enacted in silhouette.” –Tony Conrad
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- 2003

Grading Tips for Teachers
Grading Tips for Teachers02003HD
Tony Conrad provides useful & alternative grading tips for teachers. Made in Buffalo, NY.
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- 1986

Weak Bodies and Strong Wills
Weak Bodies and Strong Wills01986HD
The visual track of Weak Bodies and Strong Wills comes from my 1973 film, Enlightenment through Experience: Interim Semester at Albright College. The...
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- 1988

Vidi Vici: Narrative and the death of desire
Vidi Vici: Narrative and the death of desire01988HD
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...
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- 1983

Beholden to Victory
Beholden to Victory01983HD
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, ...
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- 1963

Chumlum
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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...
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