Lillian Schwartz Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

“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.

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...

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.

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

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...