Paul Sharits Movies
- 1978
Cinématon
Cinématon4.31978HD
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....
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- 1974
The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions
The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions01974HD
Footage of a strip of damaged film.
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- 1976
Epileptic Seizure Comparison
Epileptic Seizure Comparison71976HD
The films are of two patients, extracted from a medical film study of brain wave activity during seizures.
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- 1976
Tails
Tails7.21976HD
A series of tail ends of varied strips of film, with sometimes recognizable images dissolving into light flares, appear to run through and off of a...
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- 1982
Bad Burns
Bad Burns5.31982HD
Two reels of mis-takes in shooting Part II of 3RD DEGREE; Film was loaded in camera improperly and the image slides about off-center and becomes...
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- 1965
Wrist Trick
Wrist Trick6.81965HD
Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.
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- 1982
3rd Degree
3rd Degree01982HD
Three-screen film. On the first screen, close-ups of an agitated match in front of a young woman's fearful face. On the soundtrack: matches, warnings...
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- 1976
Tirgu Jiu
Tirgu Jiu01976HD
A flicker film of colorful squares.
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- 1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
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- 1975
Shutter Interface
Shutter Interface81975HD
Two projectors pulse in tandem
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- 1977
Declarative Mode
Declarative Mode01977HD
The film consists of two identical prints shown simultaneously, one projected inside the image of the other. The inner image is out of sync one...
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- 1987
Rapture
Rapture01987HD
'Rapture' is a fierce vision of a Dionysian experience, a tightly controlled visual statement about the abandonment of self to heightened...
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- 1974
Color Sound Frames
Color Sound Frames4.21974HD
Sharits produced Color Sound Frames by rephotographing strips of his previous films. He moved the strips, singly and in pairs, across a light table...
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- 1962
Wintercourse
Wintercourse7.41962HD
Discovered in summer of 1985, of a set of “haiku-imagistic films” I did before coming to my characteristic style, as in Ray Gun Virus; I...
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- 1971
Analytical Studies II: Un-Frame-Lines
Analytical Studies II: Un-Frame-Lines01971HD
A highly varied and playful series of short sketches involving induced camera "mistakes," printing "errors" and various "assaults" upon film (some...
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- 1965
Dots 1 & 2
Dots 1 & 261965HD
Single frame exposures of dot-screens.
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- 1965
Unrolling Event
Unrolling Event4.1881965HD
Toilet paper event, single frame exposures.
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- 1986
Figment I: Fluxglam Voyage in Search of the Real Maciunas
Figment I: Fluxglam Voyage in Search of the Real Maciunas01986HD
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- 1971
Inferential Current
Inferential Current01971HD
A mapping of an image of the linear passage of '16mm film frames' and 'emulsion scratches' onto actual 16mm film strip (the unperceived film...
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- 1977
On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?
On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?4.91977HD
“Freud established that jokes were structurally akin to dreams in their use of condensation, displacement, representation by opposites, punning...
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