Tony Conrad: The Magician
@ The Logan Theatre
2646 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60647
Opening Thursday, June 2nd, at 8:30PM
The Flicker
30 min., 16mm, 1966, USA
Conrad’s seminal experimental film, exploits the strobing effect of the cinematic image. Considered a cornerstone of structural filmmaking.
Landscape Is a Wish for Motion
4 min., video, 2003/2011, USA
A spoken piece with film projection.
Weak Bodies and Strong Wills
5 min., 16mm on video, 1986, USA
A political lament for a dying economy. The anonymous found footage includes a cameo appearance by Harry Truman.
Beholden to Victory (excerpt)
7 min., Super-8 on video 1980, USA , With Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, and others.
“An excerpt of the full-length super-8 film Hail the Fallen. It is a ‘war movie’ genre picture… The film was not directed in the traditional sense. There was no script. The actors were required to play as in a game – to follow certain rules, or to be more precise, to follow certain restrictions. They were told only what they were NOT ALLOWED TO DO. Thus the film consists of a series of scenes, of examples of correct behavior.” – Mike Kelley
In Line
7 min., video, 1985, USA
Word, trance, and command are installed as valences of artistic license, revealed as figures of parental authority.
Palace of Error
9 min., 16mm on video, 1982/2011, USA
A theoretical discourse involving three participants, enacted in silhouette. Tony Conrad with Keith Sanborn and Barbara Broughel.
I’ve Never Been…
4 min., video, 2003/2011, USA
An original song with guitar and special effects. Editing and additional guitar: Zeljko McMullen
Teddy Tells Jokes
7 min., video, 1980, USA
Straight and Narrow
10 min., 16mm on video, 1970, USA (produced with Beverly Grant Conrad, music from Terry Riley and John Cale’s recording “Church of Anthrax”)
“An extension of the flicker film phenomenon, Straight and Narrow is a study in subjective color and visual rhythm… (it) uses the flicker phenomenon not as an end in itself, but as an effectuator of other related phenomena.” – Filmmakers Cooperative
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