Lillian Schwartz Movies

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...

Digital Animation | 02"50

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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