While the initial shock of The Flicker's opening shot that exclaims, "Always have a physician on hand before screening" may give the viewer a sense of fear, one will not receive more than a headache. The best part of this "film", or whatever you want to call it, is the occasional hallucination one might conjure. But alas, the entire 25 minute "film" is merely a perfectly clear role that includes a rather unclear soundtrack that gives the film most of it's meaning(whether we're supposed to create one or whether it has one at all). Some people may believe this is avant-gardism at it's highest anarchical point, but I for one believe The Flicker is just a huge waste of precious film. Check it out if you're not epileptic or prone to migraines, but you'll probably turn it off within three minutes of pressing the play button (and no, it does not get better). I, to my misfortune, was unable to do this because I was forced to watch it in my film class. Watch at your own risk.

Dire, banal visual experiment with strobing that drags on and on despite coming in just shy of 30 minutes. This should never have left the science lab. Mildly preferable to being exposed to an atomic blast, but not much in it, Stay and have another drink in the bar until something better comes on

I recently got a chance to view this at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, it was a real treat to see. It was projected on to the wall and I honestly don't think this film would translate that well outside of a theater on a small TV screen. It was funny to think that Tony Conrad has watched this film countless times, he watched it with us and didn't leave. He said his favorite parts are the ones with more subtle flickering and not the parts where it flickers very fast (People will often hallucinate during these parts).

I talked with Tony Conrad about getting a copy of this film; he said he is working with his son who is a computer programmer to recreate the film digitally into a computer program, this is pretty smart because it would be a very small download as the only thing that would really take up space is the soundtrack. The soundtrack is composed by Tony Conrad and he said that he built his own synthesizer just for the film's score.