
Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist
Directed by
France, USA
2008
25 min
- English
Documentary, Experimental, Short
The latest in Marie Losier’s ongoing series of film portraits of avant-garde directors (George and Mike Kuchar, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman), DreaMinimalist offers an insightful and hilarious encounter with Conrad as he sings, dances and remembers his youth and his association with Jack Smith.
Credits
- Cast
- Tony Conrad
- Production
- MARIE LOSIER

Marie Losier
France
Just shoot three-minute snippets of film that you collage together. And that's the way I've always worked
Marie Losier, born in France in 1972, is a filmmaker and curator working in New York. First, she studied literature at the University of Nanterre (France) and then Fine Arts in New York City. She has made a number of film portraits on avant-garde directors, musicians and composers such as Mike and George Kuchar, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman, Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge. Whimsical, poetic, dreamlike and unconventional, her films explore the life and work of these artists. Her films are regularly shown at prestigious art and film festivals and museums. Her first feature film is a portrait of the musical genius Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and her band Psychic TV. The work in progress was presented in 2009 at The Centre George Pompidou in April to open “Hors Pistes”, as well as at the Cinemathèque Francaise in Paris in September. In 2011 the completed result of this project, THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE, premiered in Berlinale Forum, winning the Teddy Award for Best Documentary and the Calligari Film Prize. Her latest short documentary FELIX IN WONDERLAND (2019) was selected in the Fuori Concorso section at Locarno FF.
Selected Filmography
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Felix in Wonderland
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Cassandro the Exotico!
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Here in Lisbon - Episodes of a City
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L'Oiseau de la Nuit
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Alan Vega: Just a Million Dreams
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Bim, Bam, Boom, las Luchas Morenas
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The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
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Eat My Makeup!
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Cet air la
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Slap the Gondola!
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Papal Broken-Dance
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Manuelle Labor
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Flying Saucey!
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The Ontological Cowboy
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Electrocute Your Stars
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Lunch Break on the Xerox Machine
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The Touch Retouched