Lillian Schwartz Movies

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

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...

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

This tape combines live-images filmed in the Yucatan with output from the Paik video-synthesizer ribboned with computer-generated images.

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

A playful concoction of computer produced images, a few hand-animated scenes and shots of lab equipment. Made largely from left-overs from scientific...

A single bird in flight is transformed, enhanced and interpreted so as to present a unique visual experience. From its original inception in a 128...

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...

“Lines and rectangles are the geometric shapes basic to ENIGMA, a computer graphics film full of subliminal and persistent image effects. In a...

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

Musicians and dancer perform in real-time while Schwartz plays a computer-keyboard to create special effects on a computer-controlled video-visual...

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

Computer generated images used as counterpoint to music “Fantasia & In Nomine” by John Ward, performed by Elizabeth Cohen, Max...

Music “Canzoni per sonar a quattro” by Giovanni Gabrieli, performed by Elizabeth Cohen, Max Mathews, and Gerard Schwarz. Images generated...

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

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.

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

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...