[Frameworks] A Tribute to Tony Conrad at The Film-Makers' Coop 7:30PM, Fri 06/03/16

[Filmmakers Cooperative]

*A Tribute to Tony Conrad *

*Presented by: *

*The Film-Makers' Cooperative*

*The Charles S. Cohen Screening Room*

*475 Park Ave South, 6th Fl. (corner of E 31st Street)*

*New York, NY*



7:30PM Friday, June 3, 2016

The Film-Makers’ Cooperative presents a tribute to the innovative
multi-disciplinary artist Tony Conrad, celebrated master of minimalism as
filmmaker and musician, teacher and friend of many in the film community.
To those who knew him well, his droll, acerbic wit was unmistakable. Tony
graced us with his presence performing at The Coop’s benefit events over
the years.

Our tribute to Tony includes his seminal work *The Flicker* shown on 16mm
film,* Straight and Narrow* co-directed with Beverly Conrad, Marie Losier’s
magical film portrait *Tony Conrad, DreaMinimalist*, and footage from Issue
Project Room’s benefit concert celebrating Conrad’s 75th birthday.



Tony Conrad

*The Flicker* (1966) 16mm, black and white, 30 min

This is a notorious film; it moves audiences into some space and time in
which they may look around and find the movie happening in the room there
with them. Much has been written about THE FLICKER. It is a library of
peculiar visual materials, referenced to the frame-pulse at 24 frames per
second. All flickering light is potentially hazardous for photogenic
epileptics or photogenic migraine sufferers.



Tony Conrad and Beverly Conrad

*Straight and Narrow* (1970) 16mm, black and white, 10 min

Straight and Narrow is a study in subjective color and visual rhythm.
Although it is printed on black and white film, the hypnotic pacing of the
images will cause viewers to experience a programmed gamut of hallucinatory
color effects. Straight And Narrow uses the flicker phenomenon, not as an
end in itself, but as an effectuator of other related phenomena. In this
film the colors which are so illusory in The Flicker are visible and under
the programmed control of the filmmaker. Also, by using images which
alternate in a vibrating flickering schedule, a new impression of motion
and texture is created.





Marie Losier

Tony Conrad, *DreaMinimalis*t (2008), color, sound, 26 min

This is a dream portrait of Tony Conrad playing in his studio with costumes
and wigs, jumping on beds with Joe Gibbons, playing violin in his home town
Buffalo, cooking pickled films, performing at Tonic in NYC, recalling his
first hand puppet performances with his mother, his first meeting with Jack
Smith and his involvement with Flaming Creatures. Two years of footage and
stories and laughter to share.



Joel Schlemowitz

*Tony Conrad 75th Birthday Concert* (2016) 16mm-toHD, footage from a
work-in-progress, 3 min

Tony Conrad and Jennifer Walshe filmed March 7, 2015 at ISSUE Project
Room's spring benefit at Greene Naftali Gallery, NYC.
MM Serra, Executive Director
Joel Schlemowitz, Assistant to the Director
Insha Fitzpatrick, Administrative Assistant/Film Technician
NACG/The Film-Makers' Cooperative
475 Park Ave South, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10016
www.film-makerscoop.com
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