Lillian Schwartz Movies

Pioneering artist Lillian Schwartz demonstrates the human input -- integrity, artistic sensibilities, and aesthetics -- that goes into producing...

Regulars gather at The Blue Jay, a gay bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, to celebrate Christmas Eve 1971 with people they consider family.

A tortuous journey, in the company of the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí, around the figure of the enigmatic and visionary French poet Raymond...

Digital Animation | 02"50

Blasting off into cosmic visual abstraction, pioneering computer artist Lillian Schwartz’s UFOs is a kinetic tour-de-force whose innovative...

Slow disintegration and aging of artists head, revealing underlying bone structure. Created using old picture-phone technology. New music added in...

Music performed by The New York Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Pierre Boulez. Schwartz manipulates by computer, in real-time the images of...

This animation can be watched in 2D or using Chromadepth Glasses in 3D.

Schwartz reordered and combined angular contours, broken planes, and distorted proportions in her own pictorial structures in an homage to Picasso's...

This animation can be watched in 2D or using Chromadepth Glasses in 3D.

Extended editing techniques based on Land’s experiments affect the viewer’s sensory perceptions.

This animation can be watched in 2D or using Chromadepth Glasses in 3D.

This animation can be watched in 2D or using Chromadepth Glasses in 3D.

Music by Albert E. Miller. Experimental work with dancer and musicians to combine and present an unusual choreography of performers and music as a...

Abstract images of frame-by-frame animation with subtle growing effects of crystals are enhanced by polarized colors.

A colorful collage, with a subtle ecology theme, made largely from footage from trial runs of programs used for many of the other films.

A dance by bodies of shifting colors.

This animation can be watched in 2D or using Chromadepth Glasses in 3D.

Filmed directly from color television controlled by computer programs. Beautifully flowing shapes that overlap and intertwine.

Study in motion based on Muybridge’s photographs of man running.