Marie Losier & Tony Conrad - DreaMinimalist & The Flicker

Marie Losier & Tony Conrad - DreaMinimalist (2008) & The Flicker (1966)

1. Marie Losier - DreaMinimalist (2008)

2. Tony Conrad - The Flicker (1966)

DreaMinimalist (2008) offers an insightful and hilarious encounter with Conrad as he sings, dances and remembers his youth and his association with Jack Smith.

"Marie Losier is the most effervescent and psychologically accurate portrait artist working in film today. Her film wriggle with the energy and sweetness of a broken barrel full o' sugar worms!" Guy Maddin

The Flicker - Tony Conrad (1966)
30 minutes, B&W, Optical Sound, 1:1.33 Original format: 16mm film

"Tony Conrad (1940-2016) was an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, sound artist, teacher, and writer. In 1966 he made his first film The Flicker which is regarded as a landmark in structural film making. The film consists of alternating positive and negative film stock, producing a black and white flicker effect when projected. He approached the film by considering the relationship between the subjective psychological conditions of the flicker, and its relation to narrative and storytelling. He says, 'I had felt that my own experience with flicker was a transporting experience in the way that movies affect the imagination at their best by sweeping one away from reality into a completely different psychic environment.'" Tate Modern

"The Flicker has been called a sort of visual LSD, including hallucinations… You know a man can be called a bald faced liar simply by being an honest reporter. Some of these cats were sitting staring… as if watching and hearing Beethoven himself play his fifth piano concerto." - The Evening Star, Washington.