Tony Conrad Movies

  • 1965
    Normal Love

    Normal Love

    Normal Love

    7.21965HD

    A follow-up to now legendary film Flaming Creatures. This vivid, full-color homage to B-movies is a dizzying display of camp that clearly affirms...

    Normal Love
  • 1975
    Articulation of Boolean Algebra for Film Opticals

    Articulation of Boolean Algebra for Film Opticals

    Articulation of Boolean Algebra for Film Opticals

    91975HD

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

    Articulation of Boolean Algebra for Film Opticals
  • 2014
    This Is Cosmos

    This Is Cosmos

    This Is Cosmos

    02014HD

    Based on the ideas of Russian philosopher, Nikolai Fedorov, Anton Vidokle’s film was shot in Siberia, Crimea, and Kazakhstan. Fedorov, like...

    This Is Cosmos
  • 1993
    The Genius

    The Genius

    The Genius

    71993HD

    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 Genius
  • 1977
    Cycles of 3s and 7s

    Cycles of 3s and 7s

    Cycles of 3s and 7s

    01977HD

    “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....

    Cycles of 3s and 7s
  • 1961
    The Autumn Feast

    The Autumn Feast

    The Autumn Feast

    6.41961HD

    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...

    The Autumn Feast
  • 1986
    Weak Bodies and Strong Wills

    Weak Bodies and Strong Wills

    Weak Bodies and Strong Wills

    01986HD

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

    Weak Bodies and Strong Wills
  • 2003
    Grading Tips for Teachers

    Grading Tips for Teachers

    Grading Tips for Teachers

    02003HD

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

    Grading Tips for Teachers
  • 1988
    Vidi Vici: Narrative and the death of desire

    Vidi Vici: Narrative and the death of desire

    Vidi Vici: Narrative and the death of desire

    01988HD

    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...

    Vidi Vici: Narrative and the death of desire
  • 1985
    Run Dick, Run Jane

    Run Dick, Run Jane

    Run Dick, Run Jane

    01985HD

    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...

    Run Dick, Run Jane
  • 2008
    Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist

    Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist

    Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist

    5.72008HD

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

    Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist
  • 2000
    Grandma Baba and Little Boris

    Grandma Baba and Little Boris

    Grandma Baba and Little Boris

    02000HD

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

    Grandma Baba and Little Boris
  • 1977
    Movie Show

    Movie Show

    Movie Show

    01977HD

    "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...

    Movie Show
  • 1970
    Straight and Narrow

    Straight and Narrow

    Straight and Narrow

    01970HD

    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...

    Straight and Narrow
  • 1988
    The A Ha! Experience

    The A Ha! Experience

    The A Ha! Experience

    01988HD

    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...

    The A Ha! Experience
  • 1967
    The Eye of Count Flickerstein

    The Eye of Count Flickerstein

    The Eye of Count Flickerstein

    01967HD

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

    The Eye of Count Flickerstein
  • 2002
    Scanty Claus

    Scanty Claus

    Scanty Claus

    02002HD

    Mrs. Claus complains because Santa is away.

    Scanty Claus
  • 2005
    Conversation II

    Conversation II

    Conversation II

    02005HD

    A short video by Tony Conrad.

    Conversation II
  • 1983
    Beholden to Victory

    Beholden to Victory

    Beholden to Victory

    01983HD

    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, ...

    Beholden to Victory
  • 2012
    Lower East Side 12.12.12: Tony Conrad Interviewed by Michael Cohen

    Lower East Side 12.12.12: Tony Conrad Interviewed by Michael Cohen

    Lower East Side 12.12.12: Tony Conrad Interviewed by Michael Cohen

    02012HD

    Tony Conrad interviewed on the streets of NYC.

    Lower East Side 12.12.12: Tony Conrad Interviewed by Michael Cohen