In Line
1985, English. Directed by Tony Conrad.
A trisection of the spectators’ power over their own image language: word, trance, and command are installed as valences of the artist’s license, revealed as figures of parental authority. How peculiar that people like being an audience because they enjoy their submission to the authority of the program. This ritual of being dominated is a conspiracy with themselves that we enjoy but refuse to acknowledge. “Oh, no. I don’t like TV because I’m submissive; it’s because it makes me feel good.” The programs are always carefully crafted to be sensitive to people’s selfprotectiveness, even if they offer a good scare, or a good cry. Well, if this is all true, what happens when, by chance, you submit to a program that refuses to be polite about your closet masochism? That tells all? —Tony Conrad
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- 0h 7m
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- English
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- 1 January 1985
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In Line isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1985. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed In Line?
In Line (1985) was directed by Tony Conrad and stars Tony Conrad.