Lillian Schwartz Movies

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

“The changing dots, ectoplasmic shapes and electronic music of L. Schwartz’s ‘Mutations’ which has been shot with the aid of...

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

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

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

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.

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

A dance by bodies of shifting colors.

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

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...

A 4 minute film based on flowing changing images from liquid-like faces to flashing abstract imagery.

Music by Albert E. Miller. Experimental work with dancer and musicians to combine and present an unusual choreography of performers and music as a...

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

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

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

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

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