Tony Conrad
Birthday: 1940-07-03
Place of Birth: Concord, New Hampshire, USA
Biography: Anthony Schmalz "Tony" Conrad was an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, sound artist, teacher, and writer. Active in a variety of media since the early 1960s, he was a pioneer of both structural film and drone music. He performed and collaborated with a wide range of artists over the course of his career, most prominently La Monte Young's 1960s New York experimental music group Theatre of Eternal Music.
Movies
The Velvet Underground
Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directe...
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Palace of Error
“A theory discourse among three participants, enacted in silhouette.” –Tony Conrad...
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Tiding over till Tomorrow
Originally debuted in 1977, where it took the form of a dual slide projection with live piano accomp...
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Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist
The latest in Marie Losier's ongoing series of film portraits of avant-garde directors (George and M...
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Lower East Side 12.12.12: Tony Conrad Interviewed by Michael Cohen
Tony Conrad interviewed on the streets of NYC....
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Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present
Feature documentary on the pioneering life and work of iconoclastic filmmaker/musician/composer/arti...
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365 Day Project
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calenda...
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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Sm...
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Birth of a Nation
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independe...
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Normal Love
The feature length Normal Love is Jack Smith’s follow up to his now legendary film Flaming Creatures...
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Teddy Tells Jokes
This exquisite single shot is a complement to Combat Status Go. Here the viewer is positioned casual...
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In Line
A trisection of the spectators’ power over their own image language: word, trance, and command are i...
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Joan of Arc
The story of Joan of Arc as applied to the present revolution in arts and more. The Gothic is applie...
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The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
At the court of the Yellow Emperor, the Majoon Traveler & Lady Firefly appear in the Hall of Unconsc...
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Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer New ...
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Accordion
“A man, an accordion, a ladder, and a video camera. It’s as simple as that.” - Andrew Lampert...
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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s Ne...
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Grandma Baba and Little Boris
Tradition, mystical revelation, the passing on of family secrets--all that is lost in translation. I...
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Music in the Afternoon
Fellow violinist and artist Tony Conrad, in collaboration with software engineer Tom Demeyer, made f...
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The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music...
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The Genius
A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, w...
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Grading Tips for Teachers
Tony Conrad provides useful & alternative grading tips for teachers. Made in Buffalo, NY....
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