Lillian Schwartz Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Computer generated music and visuals films directly from a color TV monitor.

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

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

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

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

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...

Changing parameters on mathematical equations.

The artist uses the computer to accent and control a mime’s disciplined choreography. Studies in facial distortions with lens distortions....

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...

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...

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