Tony Conrad Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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

Negative image is shot from a small rear-projection screen, the film comes out of the camera continuously (in the dark room) and is immediately...

To make Loose Connection, Conrad built a camera that moved in two directions simultaneously: it could be rolled backward and forward on a waist-high...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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....