Tony Conrad Movies

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 Haynes...

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

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

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 ve...

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

Tony Conrad interviewed on the streets of NYC.

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

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 and for...

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

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

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 is a d...

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 ex...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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