Lillian Schwartz

Lillian Schwartz

Lillian Schwartz is a pioneer in the field of computer animation. In the early 1970s, she became the official artist in residence at AT&T Bell Laboratories, IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratory and at Lucent Technologies Bell Labs Innovations where she would experiment with early computer graphics programs to create short works of film art. After studying traditional free-hand drawing while a nursing student at the University of Cincinnati, Schwartz became interested in incorporating technology into her artwork. Along with computer scientist Ken Knowlton, she helped create the image-generating programming language EXPLOR, with which she created many of her works in the mid to late '70s. In addition to her animation, Schwartz has also done research in the field of using computers to analyse the working methods of traditional artists such as Picasso, Matisse and Da Vinci by amassing large databases of their colour palettes and structures within their art. (from: http://www.undergroundfilmjournal.com/tag/lillian-schwartz/)

  • Title: Lillian Schwartz
  • Popularity: 1.126
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1927-01-01
  • Place of Birth:
  • Homepage: http://lillian.com/
  • Also Known As: Lillian F. Schwartz
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Lillian Schwartz Movies

  • 1976
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    The Artist and the Computer

    The Artist and the Computer

    4.8 1976 HD

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

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  • 2017
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    Raymond Roussel: The Day of Glory

    Raymond Roussel: The Day of Glory

    6 2017 HD

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

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  • 2015
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    Pangloss

    Pangloss

    1 2015 HD

    Digital Animation | 02"50

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  • 1971
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    Olympiad

    Olympiad

    5.2 1971 HD

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

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  • 1970
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    Pixillation

    Pixillation

    6.2 1970 HD

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

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  • 1971
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    UFOs

    UFOs

    5.4 1971 HD

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

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  • 1977
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    Veil of Years

    Veil of Years

    1 1977 HD

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

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  • 1972
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    Mutations

    Mutations

    4.5 1972 HD

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

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  • 1972
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    Googolplex

    Googolplex

    4.5 1972 HD

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

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  • 1972
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    Mis-Takes

    Mis-Takes

    3 1972 HD

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

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  • 1972
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    Affinities

    Affinities

    1 1972 HD

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

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  • 1972
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    Apotheosis

    Apotheosis

    4.5 1972 HD

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

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  • 2005
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    OHM+: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music : 1948–1980

    OHM+: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music : 1948–1980

    1 2005 HD

    Over two hours of rare performances, interviews, animations, and experimental video. Milton Babbit’s discussion of the difficulties of working...

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  • 1975
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    Collage

    Collage

    3 1975 HD

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

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  • 1975
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    Alae

    Alae

    3 1975 HD

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

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  • 1977
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    L'oiseau

    L'oiseau

    3 1977 HD

    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...

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  • 1976
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    La Spiritata

    La Spiritata

    2 1976 HD

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

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  • 1977
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    Bagatelles

    Bagatelles

    3 1977 HD

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

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  • 1976
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    Pictures from a Gallery

    Pictures from a Gallery

    3 1976 HD

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

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  • 1972
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    Mathoms

    Mathoms

    3 1972 HD

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

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  • 1978
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    Newtonian II

    Newtonian II

    2 1978 HD

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

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  • 1974
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    Metathesis

    Metathesis

    1 1974 HD

    Changing parameters on mathematical equations.

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  • 1974
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    Metamorphosis

    Metamorphosis

    3 1974 HD

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

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  • 1974
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    Mayan

    Mayan

    2 1974 HD

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

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  • 1976
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    Fantasies

    Fantasies

    2 1976 HD

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

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  • 1978
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    Newtonian I

    Newtonian I

    2 1978 HD

    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...

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  • 1973
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    Innocence

    Innocence

    2 1973 HD

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

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  • 1972
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    Enigma

    Enigma

    2 1972 HD

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

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  • 1973
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    Papillons

    Papillons

    2 1973 HD

    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...

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  • 1974
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    Galaxies

    Galaxies

    3 1974 HD

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

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  • 1974
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    Mirage

    Mirage

    2 1974 HD

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

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  • 1975
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    Kinesis

    Kinesis

    2 1975 HD

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

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  • 1994
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    Reflections

    Reflections

    1 1994 HD

    A 4 minute film based on flowing changing images from liquid-like faces to flashing abstract imagery.

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  • 1984
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    The Museum of Modern Art

    The Museum of Modern Art

    1 1984 HD

    A short Emmy award-winning animation promoting New York's newly renovated Museum of Modern Art.

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  • 1974
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    Metamorphosis

    Metamorphosis

    3 1974 HD

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

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  • 1986
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    Beyond Picasso

    Beyond Picasso

    1 1986 HD

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

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  • 1997
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    Morphing of the Telephone

    Morphing of the Telephone

    1 1997 HD

    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...

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  • 1997
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    Morphing of the Telephone

    Morphing of the Telephone

    1 1997 HD

    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...

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  • 1997
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    Morphing of the Telephone

    Morphing of the Telephone

    1 1997 HD

    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...

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  • 1979
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    Rituel

    Rituel

    8 1979 HD

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

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  • 1971
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    UFOs

    UFOs

    5.4 1971 HD

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

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  • 1976
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    On-Line

    On-Line

    2 1976 HD

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

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  • 1976
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    The Artist and the Computer

    The Artist and the Computer

    4.8 1976 HD

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

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  • 1978
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    Poet of His People

    Poet of His People

    1 1978 HD

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

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  • 1978
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    Poet of His People

    Poet of His People

    1 1978 HD

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

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  • 1978
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    Poet of His People

    Poet of His People

    1 1978 HD

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

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  • 1982
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    3 Degree K #02

    3 Degree K #02

    1 1982 HD

    A dance by bodies of shifting colors.

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  • 2012
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    Before Before

    Before Before

    1 2012 HD

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

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  • 1977
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    Nino

    Nino

    1 1977 HD

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

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  • 1976
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    Experiments

    Experiments

    1 1976 HD

    Music “Quartet in F” by Maurice Ravel, performed by Max Mathews. Subtly colored images combining microphotography and computer generated...

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  • 1977
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    Trois Visage

    Trois Visage

    1 1977 HD

    Music by Frank Lewin. Study of the mood changes between three heads with slow moving subtle differences. Two heads are made of wood. The third head...

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  • 1977
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    Mime Control

    Mime Control

    1 1977 HD

    The artist uses the computer to accent and control a mime’s disciplined choreography. Studies in facial distortions with lens distortions....

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  • 1977
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    Ensemble #1

    Ensemble #1

    1 1977 HD

    Music by Albert E. Miller. Combination of musicians and dancers in free form movements captured by computer-controlled-video which permits...

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  • 1977
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    Dancer 2

    Dancer 2

    1 1977 HD

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

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  • 1977
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    Juggler

    Juggler

    1 1977 HD

    Music by Albert E. Miller. Computer-controlled ability to store one frame in the computer and combine this frame with the incoming frames permits...

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  • 1977
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    Ensemble #2

    Ensemble #2

    1 1977 HD

    Music by Albert E. Miller. Combination of musicians and dancers in free form movements captured by computer-controlled-video which permits...

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  • 2013
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    X-STRIA2

    X-STRIA2

    1 2013 HD

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

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  • 2014
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    AZTEC

    AZTEC

    1 2014 HD

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

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  • 2013
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    Expressive Shapes

    Expressive Shapes

    1 2013 HD

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  • 2013
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    3-D Exotic

    3-D Exotic

    1 2013 HD

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

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  • 2013
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    X-STRIA1

    X-STRIA1

    1 2013 HD

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

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  • 2014
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    Twirlinx

    Twirlinx

    1 2014 HD

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

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  • 2013
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    EXALT

    EXALT

    1 2013 HD

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

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  • 2013
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    Mood Changes

    Mood Changes

    1 2013 HD

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

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  • 2013
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    Lily's Sea

    Lily's Sea

    1 2013 HD

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

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  • 2014
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    Tacit Expressions

    Tacit Expressions

    1 2014 HD

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

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  • 2013
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    The Beauty of Excess

    The Beauty of Excess

    1 2013 HD

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

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  • 2013
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    Xtreme Sightings

    Xtreme Sightings

    1 2013 HD

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  • 2013
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    RGBCMY

    RGBCMY

    4 2013 HD

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

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  • 2013
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    NUMÉROS

    NUMÉROS

    1 2013 HD

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

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  • 2013
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    Exquisite Motions

    Exquisite Motions

    1 2013 HD

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

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  • 1971
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    Some of My Best Friends Are...

    Some of My Best Friends Are...

    4.444 1971 HD

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

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