Movies

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

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

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...

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

Drawing on rare performances, interviews, animations, and experimental film, this documentary surveys the formative years of electronic music from...

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

Created in 1990 at AT&T's Bell Labs in a program called Sculpt, one of the very first real-time texture mapping programs.

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,...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The movements of a dancers body are recorded, studied, reshaped, to understand the anatomical ranges of joints. Music by Albert E. Miller.

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