Lloyd Michael Williams
Lloyd Michael Williams (born in 1940) is an American experimental filmmaker from Brooklyn, New York. His first interest in motion was with marionettes. He became involved with photography and by the time he was thirteen was making films. During high school Lloyd was an usher at Cinema 16 in New York City, the only venue exhibiting 16mm experimental movies. Inspired by the poem by Lewis Carroll, and the work he was seeing, Lloyd made "Jabberwock" and won the Silver Medallion at the Cannes Film Festival, 1959. Lloyd entered New York University majoring in Film, Television & Radio. "They’re Off" was made at the NYU Summer Motion Picture Workshop, which Lloyd directed in 1959. In 1960 Lloyd worked with Mary Ellen Bute on "The Boy with Green Hair." He produced "Ursula" while he was a student and won the Bronze Medallion at Cannes in 1961. "The Creation" is more directed at radio and television commercials than at religion, it points out mankind’s blind belief in both. After graduating in 1962, Lloyd moved to Chicago to work for the Fred Niles Film Company. He was an assistant director for TV commercials for many familiar household products. Returning to New York, he worked for Ogilvy Benson & Mather, an advertising agency on Madison Avenue. Lloyd designed commercial story boards and became an assistant producer of television commercials, and a member of the Directors Guild of America. In 1964 Lloyd won a Fulbright to study cinematography in France and while in Paris began ...
Experiments in Terror (2003)
A collection of short experimental horror films, some well-known, some not. (more)
A collection of short experimental horror films, some well-known, some not. (more)
The Creation (1965)
A minimalistic animation of scribbled texts and shapes, set to an impressive sound collage that skewers advertising. (more)
A minimalistic animation of scribbled texts and shapes, set to an impressive sound collage that skewers advertising. (more)
Opus #5
(1962)
A sinister montage intimates the hellish void facing a man emptying bottles by the river. Sandy Fisher’s densely reverberating electronic score provides strong support for Lloyd Williams’ cultic collage of skulls, chess boards and fire. (more)
A sinister montage intimates the hellish void facing a man emptying bottles by the river. Sandy Fisher’s densely reverberating electronic score provides strong support for Lloyd Williams’ cultic collage of skulls, chess boards and fire. (more)
Ursula
(1961)
Young Ursula plays in a tree and ruins her fancy dress. Her elderly mother teaches her a cruel lesson about whether things can ever be mended; what Ursula learns about how to behave may not be what her mother intended. (more)
Young Ursula plays in a tree and ruins her fancy dress. Her elderly mother teaches her a cruel lesson about whether things can ever be mended; what Ursula learns about how to behave may not be what her mother intended. (more)
Wipes (1964)
Frenetic and vibrant exploration of the titular effect, utilizing recognizable symbols like stars, crosses, and swastikas. (more)
Frenetic and vibrant exploration of the titular effect, utilizing recognizable symbols like stars, crosses, and swastikas. (more)
Les Poissons (1957)
Jabberwock (1959)
Lewis Carroll adaptation, won the Silver Medallion at the Cannes Film Festival. (more)
Lewis Carroll adaptation, won the Silver Medallion at the Cannes Film Festival. (more)
For Life, Against the War (1967)
First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in style and sensibility but united by their opposition to the Vietnam War. Part of the protest festival Week of the ... (more)
First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in style and sensibility but united by their opposition to the Vietnam War. Part of the protest festival Week of the ... (more)
Line of Apogee (1967)
Original electronic score by Vladamire Ussachevsky. My works are that of a person who fought the notion that he was gay because, in the time frame of the 50's 60's & 70's anything gay was perverted and evil LINE OF APOGEE is a dream chronicle of 48 minutes in color ... (more)
Original electronic score by Vladamire Ussachevsky. My works are that of a person who fought the notion that he was gay because, in the time frame of the 50's 60's & 70's anything gay was perverted and evil LINE OF APOGEE is a dream chronicle of 48 minutes in color ... (more)
Two Images For a Computer Piece (With an Interlude) (1969)
Music composed, modified and assembled by Vladimir Ussachevsky at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Laboratory. The complete, extended composition is synchronized with a film by Lloyd Michael Williams, expressly created for the occasion. During the final ... (more)
Music composed, modified and assembled by Vladimir Ussachevsky at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Laboratory. The complete, extended composition is synchronized with a film by Lloyd Michael Williams, expressly created for the occasion. During the final ... (more)
Rainbow's Children (1975)
In 'Rainbow's Children', Lloyd Williams reveals the dreamer awakening; erotic displacements of dreams are transformed into the erotic realities of life itself – although still poetically suffused with a dream like languor which the filmmaker cannot escape. The ... (more)
In 'Rainbow's Children', Lloyd Williams reveals the dreamer awakening; erotic displacements of dreams are transformed into the erotic realities of life itself – although still poetically suffused with a dream like languor which the filmmaker cannot escape. The ... (more)
They're Off (1959)
A satire movie about sports car racing at the Little Lemans, directed while at New York University and very populare among sports car devotees. (more)
A satire movie about sports car racing at the Little Lemans, directed while at New York University and very populare among sports car devotees. (more)