Lillian Schwartz Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Created in 1990 at AT&T's Bell Labs in a program called Sculpt, one of the very first real-time texture mapping programs.

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

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.

Music “Quartet in F” by Maurice Ravel, performed by Max Mathews. Subtly colored images combining microphotography and computer generated...

Beginning with footage of sea birds in flight, the film image is then optically scanned and transformed by the computer. The geometric overlay on...

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

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

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