Tony Conrad Movies
- 2021
The Velvet Underground
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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...
- 2013
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches7.42013HD
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
- 1963
Flaming Creatures
Flaming Creatures4.6541963HD
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously...
- 1968
The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda6.31968HD
At the court of the Yellow Emperor, the Majoon Traveler & Lady Firefly appear in the Hall of Unconscious Magnetism.
- 2007
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis6.62007HD
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...
- 1963
Normal Love
Normal Love71963HD
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...
- 1970
Library
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Initially titled "Books for all". A moving institutional commission in which the filmmakers lovingly portray New Jersey's public library system.
- 2012
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye7.12012HD
An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing...
- 1966
The Flicker
The Flicker5.31966HD
A film consisting of alternating black and white frames.
- 1961
The Autumn Feast
The Autumn Feast6.41961HD
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...
- 1970
Straight and Narrow
Straight and Narrow01970HD
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...
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
- 1963
Chumlum
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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...
- 2017
Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith02017HD
In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer New York underground, experimental film, and...
- 1967
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc01967HD
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...
- 2007
365 Day Project
365 Day Project02007HD
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...
- 2003
Grading Tips for Teachers
Grading Tips for Teachers02003HD
Tony Conrad provides useful & alternative grading tips for teachers. Made in Buffalo, NY.
- 2008
Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist
Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist5.72008HD
The latest in Marie Losier's ongoing series of film portraits of avant-garde directors (George and Mike Kuchar, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman),...
- 2016
Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present
Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present7.62016HD
Feature documentary on the pioneering life and work of iconoclastic filmmaker/musician/composer/artist Tony Conrad.
- 1967
The Eye of Count Flickerstein
The Eye of Count Flickerstein01967HD
A Dracula parody where the camera moves to the eye of Count Flickerstein and the image changes to static-like patterns.