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....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 interviewed on the streets of NYC.

“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....

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

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

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),...

Originally debuted in 1977, where it took the form of a dual slide projection with live piano accompaniment by the artist. In the 2012 installation...

A short video by Tony Conrad.