Tony Conrad Movies

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

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...

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

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

"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...

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 deliberately non-synchronous film, shot in 8mm with the sound on tape. Piero Heliczer reads his poem "The Autumn Feast," and the visuals interact...

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

Mrs. Claus complains because Santa is away.

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...

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 short video by Tony Conrad.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Film notable for being created by physically "cooking" the film stock, similar to his other 1973 work, "Curried 7302". The name likely references...

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...