Short films by Lillian F. Schwartz (1927-2024)

(lillian.com)

101 points | by kiisupai 13 hours ago ago

15 comments

  • ChrisArchitect 9 hours ago

    Related:

    Lillian Schwartz, Pioneer in Computer-Generated Art, Dies at 97 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41844260

  • kiisupai 13 hours ago
  • rootbear 10 hours ago

    When I was at the University of Maryland in the late 70s, Schwartz visited the Computer Vision Lab and gave a talk. Sadly, I don't remember much about the talk but I did enjoy meeting her and discussing computer art.

  • wiz21c 12 hours ago

    The mother of all the demoscene !!!

  • imaginationra 4 hours ago

    I feel like I had to watch these as part of my MKULTRA programming sessions.

  • inatreecrown2 12 hours ago

    what I find interesting in her short films is the "disconnect" between visual and audio. it is not perfectly synchronized, perhaps it would not have been possible to do so. but today with all out technical possibilities, to see something like this, it transmits a kind of purity and innocence.

  • pdr94 8 hours ago

    I saw this here so many times, I guess Amiga demos were really inspired by this

  • bryanrasmussen 5 hours ago

    so I guess this stuff will be out of copyright in 2094 then?

  • chelseak6 12 hours ago

    Short films are ^^^^

  • myth_drannon 8 hours ago

    I wonder if some of the Amiga demos were inspired by her art, they have very similar effects and hers are at least a decade earlier.

  • joony527 12 hours ago

    Very nice short films! Had fun watching them

    • lproven 12 hours ago

      All of them just display an error message for me. Nothing is playable.

      What am I missing here?

      • lproven 12 hours ago

        Seems to be a Mozilla browser fail. Works in Chrome. :-(

        • yuvalr1 9 hours ago

          Works for me on FF