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.
2021The Velvet UndergroundMovieas Self (voice)
2017Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack SmithMovieas Himself (archive footage)
2016Tony Conrad: Completely in the PresentMovieas Himself
2014This Is CosmosMovieThanks
2012The Ballad of Genesis and Lady JayeMovie
2011Loose ConnectionMovieDirector
2008Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalistMovieMusic
2007365 Day ProjectMovieas Self
2007Jack Smith and the Destruction of AtlantisMovieas Self
2005Ten Years Alive on the Infinite PlainMovieDirector
2003Grading Tips for TeachersMovieas Himself · Director
2002Music in the AfternoonMovieas Self
2002Scanty ClausMovieas Mrs. Claus · Director
2000Grandma Baba and Little BorisMovieas Old Bandy Legs
1997Birth of a NationMovieas Self
1993The GeniusMovieas Dirk Dirkson · Lighting Director
1987Hey BudMovieCamera Operator
1985Home Movies 1971-81Movie
1985In LineMovieDirector
1983Beholden to VictoryMovieDirector
1981AccordionMovieDirector
1980Teddy Tells JokesMovieDirector
1977Tiding over till TomorrowMovieMusic · Cinematography · Director
1977Movie ShowMovieDirector
1977Cycles of 3s and 7sMovieDirector
1975Articulation of Boolean Algebra for Film OpticalsMovieDirector
1974Film FeedbackMovieDirector
1970LibraryMovieSound
1968Diaries, Notes, and SketchesMovieas Self
1968The Invasion of Thunderbolt PagodaMovie
1967Joan of ArcMovieas Self · Sound · Music
1967The Eye of Count FlickersteinMovieDirector
1966The FlickerMovieDirector
1965Normal LoveMovieas Mummy
1963ChumlumMovieMusic Director · Music
1963Flaming CreaturesMovieSound
1961The Autumn FeastMovieMusic
—Doing the City / Urban Community InterventionMovieas Self