Lillian Schwartz Movies

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

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...

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

Pablo Neruda’s life unfolds and becomes the basis for the symbolic representation of his poem “Barcarola”, intermixing live action,...

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

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

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

Pixillation features computer generated abstract animations set to Moog-synthesized sound.

“The changing dots, ectoplasmic shapes and electronic music of L. Schwartz’s ‘Mutations’ which has been shot with the aid of...

A ballet of squares and octagons in many forms, exhibiting a variety of geometric and sometimes sensuous interactions.

A swift moving assortment of moving images. Filmed from a color TV monitor that was computer controlled.

Escher-like images stepping through the frames to the music of a jazz group. Delightful–shows a depth in the imagery not accomplished by...

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

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

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

“Apotheosis, which is developed from images made in the radiation treatment of human cancer, is the most beautiful and the most subtly textured...

Over two hours of rare performances, interviews, animations, and experimental video. Milton Babbit’s discussion of the difficulties of working...

A number of telephones from the very first invention by Alexander Graham Bell to the present-day cellular and voice phones are morphed in an...

This film is strongly rooted in its underlying mathematical structure which forms the basis for the images. The music by Jean Claude Risset is...