Movies: Lillian Schwartz

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

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 for an IEEE conference in NYC. Beauty in Science & Art....

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

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

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

This film is strongly rooted in its underlying mathematical structure which forms the basis for the images. The music by Jean Claude Risset is integral to the creation of this concert of space and time....

Digital Animation | 02"50...

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 frame black-and-white sequence it evolves by programmed reflection, inversion, magnification, color tra...

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

Beginning with footage of sea birds in flight, the film image is then optically scanned and transformed by the computer. The geometric overlay on live random motion has the effect of creating new depth, a third dimension. Our perception of the birds’...

Slow disintegration and aging of artists head, revealing underlying bone structure. Created using old picture-phone technology. New music added in 2013....

Computer-simulated disk galaxies that are superimposed and twirl through space in beautiful colors at different speeds....

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

Changing parameters on mathematical equations....

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

“Schwartz’ METAMORPHOSIS is a complex study of evolving lines, planes, and circles, all moving at different speeds, and resulting in subtle color changes. The only computer-generated work on the program, it transcends what many of us have come to exp...

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 communication system....

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 inventive choreographic video....

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