Tony Conrad Movies
- 2021
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground6.8672021HD
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...
- 1963
Normal Love
Normal Love6.91963HD
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...
- 1963
Chumlum
Chumlum61963HD
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...
- 1963
Flaming Creatures
Flaming Creatures4.71963HD
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously...
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
- 1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches7.4741968HD
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
- 1966
The Flicker
The Flicker5.31966HD
A film consisting of alternating black and white frames.
- 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...
- 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...
- 1993
The Genius
The Genius51993HD
A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...
- 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...
- 1985
In Line
In Line01985HD
A trisection of the spectators’ power over their own image language: word, trance, and command are installed as valences of the artist’s...
- 1973
7302 Creole
7302 Creole01973HD
- 2011
Loose Connection
Loose Connection02011HD
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...
- 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...
- 2002
Scanty Claus
Scanty Claus02002HD
Mrs. Claus complains because Santa is away.
- 1977
Concord Ultimatum
Concord Ultimatum01977HD
"Originally intended as one scene in a larger work concerned with the metaphorical destruction of the viewer (through demolition of the camera),...
- 2005
Conversation II
Conversation II02005HD
A short video by Tony Conrad.
- 1977
Movie Show
Movie Show01977HD
"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...
- 1970
Library
Library01970HD
Initially titled "Books for all". A moving institutional commission in which the filmmakers lovingly portray New Jersey's public library system.