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...

Drawing on rare performances, interviews, animations, and experimental film, this documentary surveys the formative years of electronic music from...

An illusion of 3 dimensions is achieved by a blending of mathematics and physics to carry the spectator through a new range of audio and visual...

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

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

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.

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

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

Picture-processed photos from the artist-filmmaker’s family. Faces are abstracted in a divisionistic manner.

A dance by bodies of shifting colors.

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

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

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...

Mathematical functions are the basis for a science film on contour plots and an art film. Both are shown simultaneously at a two screen production...

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

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

“Schwartz’ METAMORPHOSIS is a complex study of evolving lines, planes, and circles, all moving at different speeds, and resulting in...