Lillian Schwartz Movies

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

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Digital Animation | 02"50

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...

“Apotheosis, which is developed from images made in the radiation treatment of human cancer, is the most beautiful and the most subtly textured...

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

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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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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