Lillian Schwartz Movies

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A short Emmy award-winning animation promoting New York's newly renovated Museum of Modern Art.

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

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

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...

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

Digital Animation | 02"50

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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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.