“Tyler Hubby demands his audience experience a cinema of time, which transforms the commonplace into an aesthetic … that the audience re-imagine the everyday world around them, perceive the everyday in a new way.
—Jack Sargeant, Cinema Contra Cinema”

Imaad Wasif & Nick Zinner
Folding City (Soundtrack)

A Film by Tyler Hubby

A film by Tyler Hubby, Folding City is an abstract meditation in five movements, inspired by the director’s direct involvement with Tony Conrad’s Early Minimalism compositional cycle. Together, they offer transformations of urban space, shifting from the material to the spiritual, and gravitating chaos towards singularities of oblivion. While an excerpt first appeared in Hubby’s acclaimed 2016 feature, Tony Conrad: Completely In the Present, the full version debuted in 2020.

It is a mesmeric warp and weave of dynamic serenities and stately vibrancies, vivified in a soundtrack by Imaad Wasif and Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Wasif and Zinner are also actors, composers, and multi-instrumentalists. Their efforts have supported films including Mad Max: Fury Road and the Dave Eggers/Spike Jonze production of Maurice Sendak’s classic Where the Wild Things Are.

Imaad Wasif

“Wasif is able to create a lot out of very little, making every sound count, and more importantly, making sure that the songwriting, singing, and melody are top-notch.”
—Tiny Mix Tapes

Nick Zinner

“It’s like a rumble from the planet's depth that gathers momentum and then breaks out into a riotous symphonic rock anthem. Think Sigur Ros and Muse having a love child and it’s grown up with Bjork’s Homogenic album, and you’ll be in the ballpark. It is one of the most explosively alive pieces of music I’ve heard in the last couple of years … Big riffs, huge drums, string swells and a lot of bold lyrical emotion pouring out of every note.”
—Higher Plain Music

 
 

Imaad Wasif & Nick Zinner
Folding City (Soundtrack)
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Tyler Hubby

Tyler Hubby has edited over 30 documentaries, including The Devil and Daniel Johnston; Participant Media's The Great Invisible, which won the Grand Jury Prize at SXSW 2014; Drafthouse Movies' The Final Member; the HBO documentary A Small Act; the Peabody Award-winning television special about Latinos in the US military For My Country?; and Double Take, Belgian artist Johan Grimonprez's metaphysical essay on the murder of Alfred Hitchcock by his own double. He edited and co-produced Lost Angels about the denizens of Los Angeles' Skid Row and the punk rock documentary Bad Brains: Band in DC. He served as an additional editor on the Oscar-nominated The Garden and HBO's Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired. He is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute where he studied film and photography.

A Conduit for History Exploding in the Present Moment

TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS is a curatorial network and interdisciplinary platform, live-event presenter, and fine-arts publisher of print, audio, and film, lauded by Pitchfork Media as “a national treasure.” Since its origin as a record label in 1993, TotE has been dedicated to preserving, promoting, and promulgating works by international creators of radical innovation. The organizations’s 170-plus releases — along with influential intermedia festivals — comprise a vital contemporary chronicle, a survey of meaningful eruptions across a broad horizon of sound, word, and vision.  Each unique project demonstrates how a publishing concern might romp wild, unbridled from the carousel of convention.

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"The supremacy of Table of the Elements as an unwavering outpost of ultra-experimental strains can be attributed to its concomitant adherence to valiance. Most of the Table of the Elements catalog has no broad commercial appeal, and many of its projects are risky ventures, even with respect to the experimental marketplace. Yet, this philosophy of risk works because everybody associated with the label feels like they're doing important work releasing important records, and they're willing to go for broke to make it happen.”
—Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork

“The hallmarks of this New Archivism are beautiful and innovative packaging, elaborate and idiosyncratic liner notes, rare and obscure recordings ... Working with graphic designers such as the Grammy-winning Susan Archie, Jeff Hunt produced a collection that combines varied textures, lavish finishes, and period details with art from the era of the original source recordings. Their treatment of Robert Longo’s late 1970s photographs for Rhys Chatham’s releases could, for instance, measure up to what’s on view at most contemporary art centers. In addition to its archival endeavor, TotE also releases the new work of its avant-garde heroes and their devotees. TotE’s active support of the work of sonic pioneers ensures that theirs are living traditions — not ossified museum objects.”
—Thomas Peake, Art Papers

Tony Conrad: Completely In the Present
A Film by Tyler Hubby

"Hubby's film captures Conrad in all his facets ... broadly as a man determined to make 'abstract art funny, happy, energetic, joyful.' Conrad lived long enough to see his early recordings, barely or never released, get the reissue and the attention they deserve. ... [Completely In the Present] is a sharp, sweet, eloquent documentary about the merriest, most artistically expansive minimalist on record. His work and his life asserted the importance of listening for the sounds nobody else has heard."
—Chicago Tribune

“Joyous, exhilarating, and transformative, Tyler Hubby’s documentary is essential viewing for anyone involved in the history of music and visual art.”
—Artforum

"Conrad was 100 percent badass. Without Tyler Hubby’s documentary and Table of the Elements ... one of the great stories of American music and art might have gone underappreciated.”
—Henry Rollins

 

 

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