Tony Conrad Movies

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

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

Mrs. Claus complains because Santa is away.

A film consisting of alternating black and white frames.

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

“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....

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

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

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, ...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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