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The Magician: Tony Conrad

Logan Theatre

2646 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL, US IL

41.9296984003865 -87.7088258159199

Description

The Flicker30 min., 16mm, 1966, USAConrad’s seminal experimental film, exploits the strobing effect of the cinematic image. Considered a cornerstone of structural filmmaking.Landscape Is a Wish for Motion4 min., video, 2003/2011, USAA spoken piece with film projection.Weak Bodies and Strong Wills5 min., 16mm on video, 1986, USAA 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 KelleyIn Line7 min., video, 1985, USAWord, trance, and command are installed as valences of artistic license, revealed as figures of parental authority.Palace of Error9 min., 16mm on video, 1982/2011, USAA 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, USAAn original song with guitar and special effects. Editing and additional guitar: Zeljko McMullenTeddy Tells Jokes7 min., video, 1980, USAStraight and Narrow10 min., 16mm on video, 1970, USA (produced with Beverly Grant Conrad, music from Terry Riley and John Cale’s recording “Church of Anthrax”) In this black and white flicker film the viewer may experience a range of subjective color and motion effects -- color fringes resulting from the modulated rhythm structure of horizontal and vertical stripes. “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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Tickets

ticket 10.0 USD 115