Lillian Schwartz Movies

  • 2017
    Raymond Roussel: The Day of Glory

    Raymond Roussel: The Day of Glory

    Raymond Roussel: The Day of Glory

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

    Raymond Roussel: The Day of Glory
  • 1971
    Some of My Best Friends Are...

    Some of My Best Friends Are...

    Some of My Best Friends Are...

    4.41971HD

    Regulars gather at The Blue Jay, a gay bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, to celebrate Christmas Eve 1971 with people they consider family.

    Some of My Best Friends Are...
  • 1986
    Beyond Picasso

    Beyond Picasso

    Beyond Picasso

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

    Beyond Picasso
  • 1976
    The Artist and the Computer

    The Artist and the Computer

    The Artist and the Computer

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

    The Artist and the Computer
  • 1971
    UFOs

    UFOs

    UFOs

    5.41971HD

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

    UFOs
  • 1971
    Olympiad

    Olympiad

    Olympiad

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

    Olympiad
  • 1972
    Googolplex

    Googolplex

    Googolplex

    4.51972HD

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

    Googolplex
  • 1972
    Mis-Takes

    Mis-Takes

    Mis-Takes

    31972HD

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

    Mis-Takes
  • 2012
    Before Before

    Before Before

    Before Before

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

    Before Before
  • 1972
    Mutations

    Mutations

    Mutations

    4.51972HD

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

    Mutations
  • 1972
    Affinities

    Affinities

    Affinities

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

    Affinities
  • 1978
    Poet of His People

    Poet of His People

    Poet of His People

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    Pablo Neruda’s life unfolds and becomes the basis for the symbolic representation of his poem “Barcarola”, intermixing live action,...

    Poet of His People
  • 2014
    Tacit Expressions

    Tacit Expressions

    Tacit Expressions

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

    Tacit Expressions
  • 1970
    Pixillation

    Pixillation

    Pixillation

    6.21970HD

    Pixillation features computer generated abstract animations set to Moog-synthesized sound.

    Pixillation
  • 1977
    Bagatelles

    Bagatelles

    Bagatelles

    31977HD

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

    Bagatelles
  • 1972
    Apotheosis

    Apotheosis

    Apotheosis

    4.51972HD

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

    Apotheosis
  • 1972
    Enigma

    Enigma

    Enigma

    21972HD

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

    Enigma
  • 1997
    Morphing of the Telephone

    Morphing of the Telephone

    Morphing of the Telephone

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    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...

    Morphing of the Telephone
  • 1974
    Mirage

    Mirage

    Mirage

    21974HD

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

    Mirage
  • 2013
    RGBCMY

    RGBCMY

    RGBCMY

    42013HD

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

    RGBCMY