Tony Conrad Movies

Initially titled "Books for all". A moving institutional commission in which the filmmakers lovingly portray New Jersey's public library system.

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...

A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...

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

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

Tony Conrad interviewed on the streets of NYC.

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

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

Tony Conrad provides useful & alternative grading tips for teachers. Made in Buffalo, NY.

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

A short video by 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...

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

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

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

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

Four Square is a film designed for four screens surrounding the audience. Through its spatial distribution of abstract image and sound it begins to...

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

"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...