Tony Conrad
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
- Directing
- Born
- 1940-07-03 · Concord, New Hampshire, USA
- Died
- 2016-04-09
Known for
- The Velvet Underground (2021) — Self (voice)
- Flaming Creatures (1963) — Sound
- Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) — Self
- The Flicker (1966) — Director
- The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2012)
- The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda (1968)
- Chumlum (1963) — Music Director
- Normal Love (1965) — Mummy
- Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2007) — Self
- Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present (2016) — Himself
- The Autumn Feast (1961) — Music
- Birth of a Nation (1997) — Self
- Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist (2008)
- The Genius (1993) — Dirk Dirkson
- Articulation of Boolean Algebra for Film Opticals (1975) — Director
- 365 Day Project (2007) — Self