The Inventor, the Alchemist, and the Mad Scientist of the East Village
摘要
In early 1966, Tony Conrad screened the final version of his film, ‘Flicker,’ at the Filmmaker’s Cinémathèque on West 41st Street. Notably, Conrad’s thirty-minute piece begins with a title card that lasts over a minute and a half, warning the audience that a physician should be present during the film’s screening. Conrad, and several New York based artists like Harry Smith, M. Henry Jones, Bill Brand, and Gregory Barsamian, explored the moving image from a deeply cerebral, mathematical, and physiological point of view, innovating unique approaches to animation well outside the mainstream.