Lloyd Michael Williams is an American

experimental film Experimental film or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that does not apply standard cinematic conventions, instead adopting Non-narrative film, non-narrative forms or alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working. Many e ...

maker. He was born in 1940 in

Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn is a Boroughs of New York City, borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the New York (state), State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelv ...

and grew up on

Long Island Long Island is a densely populated continental island in southeastern New York (state), New York state, extending into the Atlantic Ocean. It constitutes a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land are ...

. He was one of the co-founders of The Film-Makers' Cooperative along with Jonas Mekas. William's works ''Line of Apogee'' (1967), ''Rainbow's Children'' (1975), ''Wipes'' (1963), ''the Creation'' (1965) and ''Opus#5'' (1961) were shown at the

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, a ...

. The sound tracks for ''Line of Apogee'' and ''Two Images for a Computer Piece'' were created by

Vladimir Ussachevsky Vladimir Alexeevich Ussachevsky (November 3, 1911 in Hailar, China – January 2, 1990 in New York, New York) was a Russian-American composer, particularly known for his work in electronic music. Biography Vladimir Ussachevsky was born in ...

(the "father of

electronic music Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...

") at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Lab. ''Two Images'' was shown at the Whitney Museum of Arts as a part of the Composers Showcase. The electronic music was by Ussachevsky and the interlude was a live drum solo.

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* * 1940 births Living people Film directors from Brooklyn American experimental filmmakers {{US-film-director-1940s-stub