The Squeaky Wheel will host a screening of short films titled Bring Your Own Tony featuring:

• p0st-it t0ny (Alice Alexandrescu, 2010, 2 min.): "Impromptu performance. Tony Conrad asked for my input on a superbly complex topic in media analysis. I gave him my best answer to fit the time constraints of a graduate level course and left the room."
• Wilderness Theater (Lara Odell, 2006, 11 min.): "'Wilderness Theater is a collaborative video by Anya Lewin and Lara Odell, with Tony Conrad as The Naturalist. Two bears, one brown and one white (played by Lewin and Odell), somnambulate through multiple split-screen spaces: a desert, a snowscape, a post-industrial ruin, a forest, and an interior dreamscape. The white bear, or ghost bear, is maybe the brown bear's unwanted thought. Meanwhile, a naturalist logs his visions of the bears with a camera and notebook.'"
• Women in Jail Doc (David McCreery, 2010, 10 min.): "A 'documentary' of Tony Conrad at work in his studio, in preparation for filming his film 'women in jail' w/ Tony Conrad, Anna Brantwood and George Sherer."
• Tony as my violin priest (Martha Colburn, 2014, 3 min.): "This is one of the last rolls of sound super 8mm ever processed. I made it one afternoon in tonys studio. He dressed up and we made a little set and he played violin."
• Tangible Man (Stephen Gallagher, 1984, 15 min.): "Tangible Man (Tm, also for trademark or transcendental meditation) is a critique of artist's ability to render their interior world tangible in the form of an artwork."
• We Are Fools — Scene 1 : The Magician (Zeljko McMullen, 2013, 5 min.): "Over the course of 7 years, I made an experimental feature film based off of different artists invoking archetypes from the Major Arcana of the Tarot. I set the stage for each of the 22 scenes, and had different artists improvise within it."
• Tony Conrad: Bryant Park (excerpt) (Tyler Hubby, 2016, 7 min.): "Tony Skypes his media class while discussing his the installation of 'bryant Park Moratorium' and later visits contemporary Bryant Park."
• We Ride Bikes! (David Gracon, 2000, 11 min.): "This is a short lo-fi documentary about Buffalo's first Critical Mass bike ride. Critical Mass is a celebration of community, public space and bike culture. The Buffalo Police shut down this ride and a debate ensued regarding bicycle rights."

Tony as hypnotist, Tony as magician, Tony as naturalist, Tony on a bike, Tony on skype! As we near the end of Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective, and the multi-institutional celebrations that took place throughout early 2018, we are excited to celebrate with an evening of films and videos featuring the late polymath, made by his friends, colleagues, and students. We remember our founder fondly, and hope to offer a fun and warm gathering for our community, with a couple of surprises thrown in.

[source: Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center website, 2018-May-7]