Tony Conrad
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- July 3, 1940, Concord, New Hampshire, USA
- Died
- April 9, 2016
- Movies
- 51
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.
Upcoming Tony Conrad Movies
Doing the City / Urban Community Intervention
Release date TBA
Best-Known Movies
The Velvet Underground
2021
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
The Flicker
1966
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
2012
The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
1968
Normal Love
1965
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007
Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present
2016
Birth of a Nation
1997
Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist
2008
Filmography
| 2021 | The Velvet Underground | Self (voice) |
| 2017 | Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith | Himself (archive footage) |
| 2016 | Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present | Himself |
| 2012 | The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye | |
| 2012 | Lower East Side 12.12.12: Tony Conrad Interviewed by Michael Cohen | Self |
| 2008 | Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist | |
| 2007 | 365 Day Project | Self |
| 2007 | Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis | Self |
| 2003 | Grading Tips for Teachers | Himself |
| 2002 | Music in the Afternoon | Self |
| 2002 | Scanty Claus | Mrs. Claus |
| 2000 | Grandma Baba and Little Boris | Old Bandy Legs |
| 1999 | Laboratorium Anthology | |
| 1997 | Birth of a Nation | Self |
| 1993 | The Genius | Dirk Dirkson |
| 1985 | Home Movies 1971-81 | |
| 1985 | In Line | |
| 1982 | Palace of Error | |
| 1981 | Accordion | |
| 1980 | Teddy Tells Jokes | |
| 1977 | Tiding over till Tomorrow | |
| 1968 | Diaries, Notes, and Sketches | Self |
| 1968 | The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda | |
| 1967 | Joan of Arc | Self |
| 1965 | Normal Love | Mummy |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2011 | Loose Connection | Director |
| 2005 | Conversation II | Director |
| 2005 | Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain | Director |
| 2003 | Grading Tips for Teachers | Director |
| 2002 | Scanty Claus | Director |
| 1988 | Vidi Vici: Narrative and the death of desire | Director |
| 1986 | Weak Bodies and Strong Wills | Director |
| 1985 | In Line | Director |
| 1985 | Run Dick, Run Jane | Director |
| 1983 | Beholden to Victory | Director |
| 1982 | Palace of Error | Director |
| 1981 | Accordion | Director |
| 1980 | Teddy Tells Jokes | Director |
| 1977 | Tiding over till Tomorrow | Director |
| 1977 | Concord Ultimatum | Director |
| 1977 | Movie Show | Director |
| 1977 | Cycles of 3s and 7s | Director |
| 1975 | Articulation of Boolean Algebra for Film Opticals | Director |
| 1974 | Film Feedback | Director |
| 1973 | 7302 Creole | Director |
| 1973 | 4-X Attack | Director |
| 1973 | 7360 Sukiyaki | Director |
| 1971 | Four Square | Director |
| 1970 | Straight and Narrow | Director |
| 1967 | The Eye of Count Flickerstein | Director |
| 1966 | The Flicker | Director |
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