Tony Conrad
- Directing
- July 3, 1940 · Concord, New Hampshire, USA
- April 9, 2016
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- The Velvet Underground · Self
- Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith · Self
- Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present · Self
- This Is Cosmos · Thanks
- The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
- Lower East Side 12.12.12: Tony Conrad Interviewed by Michael Cohen · Self
- Loose Connection · Director
- Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist · Music
- 365 Day Project · Self
- Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis · Self
- Conversation II · Director
- Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain · Director
- Grading Tips for Teachers · Self, Director
- Music in the Afternoon · Self
- Scanty Claus · Mrs. Claus, Director
- Grandma Baba and Little Boris · Old Bandy Legs
- Laboratorium Anthology
- Birth of a Nation · Self
- The Genius · Dirk Dirkson, Lighting Director
- The A Ha! Experience · Camera Operator
- Vidi Vici: Narrative and the death of desire · Director
- Hey Bud · Camera Operator
- Weak Bodies and Strong Wills · Director
- Home Movies 1971-81
- In Line · Director
- Run Dick, Run Jane · Director
- Beholden to Victory · Director
- Palace of Error · Director
- Accordion · Director
- Teddy Tells Jokes · Director
- Tiding over till Tomorrow · Director, Cinematography
- Concord Ultimatum · Director
- Movie Show · Director
- Cycles of 3s and 7s · Director
- Articulation of Boolean Algebra for Film Opticals · Director
- Film Feedback · Director
- 7302 Creole · Director
- 4-X Attack · Director
- 7360 Sukiyaki · Director
- Four Square · Director
- Straight and Narrow · Director
- Coming Attractions · Cinematography
- Library · Sound
- Diaries, Notes, and Sketches · Self
- The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
- Joan of Arc · Self, Sound
- The Eye of Count Flickerstein · Director
- The Flicker · Director
- Normal Love · Mummy
- Chumlum · Music Director, Music
- Flaming Creatures · Sound
- The Autumn Feast · Music
- Doing the City / Urban Community Intervention · Self