Tony Conrad

Tony Conrad

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.

  • Title: Tony Conrad
  • Popularity: 2.175
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1940-07-03
  • Place of Birth: Concord, New Hampshire, USA
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  • Also Known As: Anthony Conrad, Anthony Schmalz "Tony" Conrad, Anthony Schmalz Conrad
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Tony Conrad Movies

  • 2021
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    The Velvet Underground

    The Velvet Underground

    6.799 2021 HD

    Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd...

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  • 1982
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    Palace of Error

    Palace of Error

    1 1982 HD

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

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  • 1985
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    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    1 1985 HD

    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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  • 1977
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    Tiding over till Tomorrow

    Tiding over till Tomorrow

    1 1977 HD

    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...

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  • 2008
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    Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist

    Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist

    5.7 2008 HD

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

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

    Lower East Side 12.12.12: Tony Conrad Interviewed by Michael Cohen

    1 2012 HD

    Tony Conrad interviewed on the streets of NYC.

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  • 2016
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    Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present

    Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present

    7.6 2016 HD

    Feature documentary on the pioneering life and work of iconoclastic filmmaker/musician/composer/artist Tony Conrad.

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  • 2007
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    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    1 2007 HD

    This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...

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  • 2007
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    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    6.6 2007 HD

    In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...

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  • 1997
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    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    6.3 1997 HD

    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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  • 1963
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    Normal Love

    Normal Love

    6.9 1963 HD

    The feature length Normal Love is Jack Smith’s follow up to his now legendary film Flaming Creatures. This vivid, full-color homage to B-movies...

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  • 1980
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    Teddy Tells Jokes

    Teddy Tells Jokes

    1 1980 HD

    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...

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  • 1985
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    In Line

    In Line

    1 1985 HD

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

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  • 1967
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    Joan of Arc

    Joan of Arc

    1 1967 HD

    The story of Joan of Arc as applied to the present revolution in arts and more. The Gothic is applied to the War in Vietnam. The film is experimental...

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  • 1968
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    The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda

    The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda

    6.3 1968 HD

    At the court of the Yellow Emperor, the Majoon Traveler & Lady Firefly appear in the Hall of Unconscious Magnetism.

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  • 2017
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    Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith

    Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith

    1 2017 HD

    In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer New York underground, experimental film, and...

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  • 1981
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    Accordion

    Accordion

    1 1981 HD

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

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  • 1968
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    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    7.3 1968 HD

    An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

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  • 2000
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    Grandma Baba and Little Boris

    Grandma Baba and Little Boris

    1 2000 HD

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

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  • 2002
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    Music in the Afternoon

    Music in the Afternoon

    1 2002 HD

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

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  • 2012
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    The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

    The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

    7.1 2012 HD

    An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing...

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  • 1993
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    The Genius

    The Genius

    5 1993 HD

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

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  • 2002
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    Scanty Claus

    Scanty Claus

    1 2002 HD

    Mrs. Claus complains because Santa is away.

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  • 2003
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    Grading Tips for Teachers

    Grading Tips for Teachers

    1 2003 HD

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

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  • 2002
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    Scanty Claus

    Scanty Claus

    1 2002 HD

    Mrs. Claus complains because Santa is away.

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  • 2003
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    Grading Tips for Teachers

    Grading Tips for Teachers

    1 2003 HD

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

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  • 1977
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    Tiding over till Tomorrow

    Tiding over till Tomorrow

    1 1977 HD

    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...

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  • 1977
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    Tiding over till Tomorrow

    Tiding over till Tomorrow

    1 1977 HD

    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...

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  • 1977
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    Tiding over till Tomorrow

    Tiding over till Tomorrow

    1 1977 HD

    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...

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  • 1966
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    The Flicker

    The Flicker

    5.3 1966 HD

    A film consisting of alternating black and white frames.

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  • 1970
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    Library

    Library

    1 1970 HD

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

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  • 1983
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    Beholden to Victory

    Beholden to Victory

    1 1983 HD

    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, ...

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  • 1961
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    The Autumn Feast

    The Autumn Feast

    6.4 1961 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    Straight and Narrow

    Straight and Narrow

    1 1970 HD

    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...

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  • 1973
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    4-X Attack

    4-X Attack

    1 1973 HD

    A machine-gun film roll of 4-X negative film was exposed using pressure (hammering) and was flashed in its exploded physical configuration.

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  • 2005
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    Conversation II

    Conversation II

    1 2005 HD

    A short video by Tony Conrad.

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  • 1987
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    Hey Bud

    Hey Bud

    1 1987 HD

    Hey Bud begins with the suicide of Bud Dwyer, a government official who killed himself on television. Writes Zando: "I view the suicide as...

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  • 1988
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    The A Ha! Experience

    The A Ha! Experience

    1 1988 HD

    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...

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  • 1963
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    Flaming Creatures

    Flaming Creatures

    4.6 1963 HD

    Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously...

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  • 1967
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    The Eye of Count Flickerstein

    The Eye of Count Flickerstein

    1 1967 HD

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

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  • 1963
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    Chumlum

    Chumlum

    6 1963 HD

    Ron Rice's Chumlum is one of those films in which the conditions of its construction are integral to the experience of watching it. It is a record of...

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  • 1975
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    Articulation of Boolean Algebra for Film Opticals

    Articulation of Boolean Algebra for Film Opticals

    9 1975 HD

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

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  • 1974
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    Film Feedback

    Film Feedback

    1 1974 HD

    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...

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  • 1977
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    Concord Ultimatum

    Concord Ultimatum

    1 1977 HD

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

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  • 1972
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    Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain

    Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain

    1 1972 HD

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

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  • 1982
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    Palace of Error

    Palace of Error

    1 1982 HD

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

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  • 1967
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    Joan of Arc

    Joan of Arc

    1 1967 HD

    The story of Joan of Arc as applied to the present revolution in arts and more. The Gothic is applied to the War in Vietnam. The film is experimental...

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  • 1980
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    Teddy Tells Jokes

    Teddy Tells Jokes

    1 1980 HD

    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...

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  • 1985
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    In Line

    In Line

    1 1985 HD

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

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  • 1985
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    Run Dick, Run Jane

    Run Dick, Run Jane

    1 1985 HD

    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...

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  • 1988
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    Vidi Vici: Narrative and the death of desire

    Vidi Vici: Narrative and the death of desire

    1 1988 HD

    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...

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  • 1986
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    Weak Bodies and Strong Wills

    Weak Bodies and Strong Wills

    1 1986 HD

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

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  • 2011
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    Loose Connection

    Loose Connection

    1 2011 HD

    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...

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  • 1967
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    Joan of Arc

    Joan of Arc

    1 1967 HD

    The story of Joan of Arc as applied to the present revolution in arts and more. The Gothic is applied to the War in Vietnam. The film is experimental...

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  • 1963
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    Chumlum

    Chumlum

    6 1963 HD

    Ron Rice's Chumlum is one of those films in which the conditions of its construction are integral to the experience of watching it. It is a record of...

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  • 1977
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    Cycles of 3s and 7s

    Cycles of 3s and 7s

    1 1977 HD

    “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....

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  • 1977
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    Movie Show

    Movie Show

    1 1977 HD

    "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...

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  • 1981
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    Accordion

    Accordion

    1 1981 HD

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

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  • 2014
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    This Is Cosmos

    This Is Cosmos

    1 2014 HD

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

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  • 1970
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    Coming Attractions

    Coming Attractions

    1 1970 HD

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

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  • 2008
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    Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist

    Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist

    5.7 2008 HD

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

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  • 1973
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    7302 Creole

    7302 Creole

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1971
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    Four Square

    Four Square

    1 1971 HD

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

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  • 1993
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    The Genius

    The Genius

    5 1993 HD

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

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