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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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 Frank Lewin. Study of the mood changes between three heads with slow moving subtle differences. Two heads are made of wood. The third head...

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

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.

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

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

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.

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