Mubi is exclusively playing Tyler Hubby's Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present (2016) from April 8 - May 8, 2017 in the United Kingdom and United States.This month Mubi is screening Tyler Hubby’s documentary Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present, which focuses on the life of the musician, filmmaker and teacher who died in April 2016. The release coincides with a series of special memorial events to be held across the U.S., including musical performances. Tyler Hubby spoke to me by Skype about making the film and the many facets of Conrad’s innovative media and community activities, many of which are still being uncovered.Notebook: I was in contact with you last when I wrote a piece for the Notebook, just after Tony Conrad passed away. You helped out with an image for it, which was fantastic.Hubby: Oh good. Yeah, that was a really strange time. I just reread...
- 4/8/2017
- MUBI
Mubi is exclusively playing Tyler Hubby's Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present (2016) from April 8 - May 8, 2017 in the United Kingdom and United States.Tyler Hubby (left) and Tony Conrad (right)I met Tony Conrad in 1994 just as he was re-emerging as a composer and musician. I was recording with my Hi-8 camera when he played one of his first public shows as a violin soloist and have been recording since.Tony was electrifying in how he could always find ways to confront establishment ideas and personal belief systems. Not only was his sabre rattling at the foundations of western culture inspiring, it was also just, and deeply resonated with my ideas of the role of art in society.Over the years as I worked as an editor on films like The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Double Take and The Great Invisible I kept shooting performances and interviews with Tony,...
- 4/8/2017
- MUBI
When Tony Conrad passed away in April of 2016, I knew of him as an experimental filmmaker. It’s hard to be an art student at the University at Buffalo — despite his teaching in Media Studies rather than Fine Art — and not know his name. But that was all I knew: a name, reputation, and the plaudits of countless friends who knew so much more. Only when obituaries started being released in the likes of the New York Times did I realize how renowned a figure he was beyond local heroic status working alongside Paul Sharits and Hollis Frampton in my hometown. Then Rolling Stone posted. Pitchfork, Stereogum, NME, and other music publications quickly followed suit. Suddenly a whole world was opened by his sprawling legacy.
This is where documentarian Tyler Hubby arrives — with a film twenty years in the making that proves perfectly suited for a Conrad novice like myself.
This is where documentarian Tyler Hubby arrives — with a film twenty years in the making that proves perfectly suited for a Conrad novice like myself.
- 10/9/2016
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
In today's roundup on special screenings, we're collecting reviews of Richard Brooks's Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Eiichi Yamamoto's Belladonna of Sadness, King Hu's Dragon Inn, Tony Conrad's The Flicker, David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers and Riley Stearns's Faults. Plus: Celebrating Orson Welles in Los Angeles, talking with Kelly Reichardt in Vienna, Whit Stillman in Liverpool, discussing The Walking Dead in London, and in Gent, Pere Portabella's Informe General and Informe General II. El nuevo rapto de Europa. » - David Hudson...
- 5/5/2016
- Keyframe
In today's roundup on special screenings, we're collecting reviews of Richard Brooks's Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Eiichi Yamamoto's Belladonna of Sadness, King Hu's Dragon Inn, Tony Conrad's The Flicker, David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers and Riley Stearns's Faults. Plus: Celebrating Orson Welles in Los Angeles, talking with Kelly Reichardt in Vienna, Whit Stillman in Liverpool, discussing The Walking Dead in London, and in Gent, Pere Portabella's Informe General and Informe General II. El nuevo rapto de Europa. » - David Hudson...
- 5/5/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Tony Conrad, 1983. Photo by Joe Gibbons.Tony Conrad, who passed away on April 9 aged 76, was a vital figure in the fields of both filmmaking and music. His work in each is often characterized by its visceral power, its clear-eyed critique of Western art traditions, its interest in social questions and relations of control, its technical virtuosity and wit.Conrad was an indisputable innovator. His film works, beginning with The Flicker (1966) and continuing through, the Yellow Movies (1973), Film Feedback (1974), the ‘cooked film’ and ‘pickled film’ series, and many others, pushing the medium to its inner and outer limits: exploring the potential of long durations, stroboscopic effects, the physical properties of celluloid, the relation of filmmaker to spectator, the relation of film to other arts and to history. Conrad also created a vast number of video works, reflecting the same incisive energy. Too seldom referred to in contemporary writing about experimental film,...
- 4/19/2016
- by Yusef Sayed
- MUBI
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