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Well, if you take a roll of film and instead of making pictures on it, you process it by pickling it in vinegar and putting it in a jar and presenting it for people to look at that way, projected through the lens of the fluid around it, this is so distorted and such a monstrous disfigurement of the normal way in which you are 'supposed to use' film, that it is a kind of pathology; it's a sickness in the sense of a virus being inserted in the system. I think wellness and change are measured by comparison to potential for extremes of illness or death. I was trying to kill film. I wanted to let it lay over and die.

Tony Conrad

Tony Conrad

Tony Conrad

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Born: March 7, 1940

Died: April 9, 2016 (aged 76)

Bio: Tony Conrad is an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician/composer, sound artist, teacher and writer.

Known for:

Outside the Dream Syndicate (1973)
Day of Niagara (2000)
Early Minimalism, Volume 1 (1997)
Slapping Pythagoras (1995)
Joan of Arc (2006)

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