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.

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

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

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

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

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...

Filmed directly from color television controlled by computer programs. Beautifully flowing shapes that overlap and intertwine.

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

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

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

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

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

Abstract images of frame-by-frame animation with subtle growing effects of crystals are enhanced by polarized colors.

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

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

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

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...

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

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