Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present

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Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present

2016

1h 42m

Documentary

Music

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An overview of the pioneering life and works of artist, filmmaker, musician, and educator Tony Conrad.

Jonathan Romney

Film Comment Magazine

[Tony] Conrad doesn't reminisce like those artists whose discourse essentially fetishizes, classifies, and files away their own glory years: his witty and often amused account brings his past alive in the now...

Mar 8, 2018

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Glenn Kenny

New York Times

"I want to make abstract art that's funny, happy, energetic, joyful," he exclaims at one point. That he did. This movie is a good introduction to it.

Mar 30, 2017

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Craig Hubert

Hyperallergic

Instead of shrinking down Conrad's life into something that is digestible and easy to understand, the film celebrates its wild looseness and leaves the access points wide open for anyone to enter.

Feb 5, 2020

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Diane Carson

KDHX (St. Louis)

In the small doses included in this documentary, the ideas and their execution are bracing, exciting.

Aug 28, 2017

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Amy Taubin

Artforum

Joyous, exhilarating, and transformative.

Apr 6, 2017

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Amber Wilkinson

Eye for Film

Two things shine out from Tyler Hubby's documentary feature debut about filmmaker/composer and general avant-garde maverick Tony Conrad - the playfulness of the man himself and, in terms of his work, his bloody-minded patience.

Rated: 3/5

Mar 30, 2017

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A beautiful and inspiring film, a must see for any artist..

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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An overview of the pioneering life and works of artist, filmmaker, musician, and educator Tony Conrad.

Director: Tyler Hubby
Producer: Tyler Hubby, Christine Beebe
Screenwriter: Tyler Hubby
Genre: Documentary, Music
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 26, 2020
Runtime: 1h 42m

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