Paul Sharits Movies

  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

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    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1978
    Cinématon

    Cinématon

    Cinématon

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    Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

    Cinématon
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

    Birth of a Nation
  • 2015
    Paul Sharits

    Paul Sharits

    Paul Sharits

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    Long after his premature death, the impact of Paul Sharits lingers on. The prominent iconoclast and innovator provoked with fast-flickering,...

    Paul Sharits
  • 1966
    Word Movie

    Word Movie

    Word Movie

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    Single frame exposures of words.

    Word Movie
  • 1966
    Sears Catalogue 1-3

    Sears Catalogue 1-3

    Sears Catalogue 1-3

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    Each film frame is a different image from the Sears Roebuck mail order catalogue. The film places pictures of the objects sold by Sears to the...

    Sears Catalogue 1-3
  • 1965
    Wrist Trick

    Wrist Trick

    Wrist Trick

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    Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.

    Wrist Trick
  • 1965
    Dots 1 & 2

    Dots 1 & 2

    Dots 1 & 2

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    Single frame exposures of dot-screens.

    Dots 1 & 2
  • 1981
    Cinématon XIII

    Cinématon XIII

    Cinématon XIII

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    Reel 13 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

    Cinématon XIII
  • 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?

    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?

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    “Freud established that jokes were structurally akin to dreams in their use of condensation, displacement, representation by opposites, punning...

    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?
  • 1970
    Cinématon n°120 : Paul Sharits

    Cinématon n°120 : Paul Sharits

    Cinématon n°120 : Paul Sharits

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    Cinématon n°120 : Paul Sharits
  • 1974
    Color Sound Frames

    Color Sound Frames

    Color Sound Frames

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    Sharits produced Color Sound Frames by rephotographing strips of his previous films. He moved the strips, singly and in pairs, across a light table...

    Color Sound Frames
  • 1974
    Vertical Contiguity

    Vertical Contiguity

    Vertical Contiguity

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    Paul Sharits short work

    Vertical Contiguity
  • 1969
    T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G

    T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G

    T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G

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    T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G uses flickering frames of solid color juxtaposed with positive and negative still images of a man—sometimes cutting off his own...

    T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G
  • 1976
    Epileptic Seizure Comparison

    Epileptic Seizure Comparison

    Epileptic Seizure Comparison

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    The films are of two patients, extracted from a medical film study of brain wave activity during seizures.

    Epileptic Seizure Comparison
  • 2006
    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    Funtime at the Vasulkas

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    A recording of a meeting in the studio where Jeffrey Schier and Woody show colleagues and teachers a new tool. Between 1976 and 1980, Woody and...

    Funtime at the Vasulkas
  • 1971
    Analytical Studies II: Un-Frame-Lines

    Analytical Studies II: Un-Frame-Lines

    Analytical Studies II: Un-Frame-Lines

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    A highly varied and playful series of short sketches involving induced camera "mistakes," printing "errors" and various "assaults" upon film (some...

    Analytical Studies II: Un-Frame-Lines
  • 1976
    Paul Sharits Interview with Gerard O'Grady

    Paul Sharits Interview with Gerard O'Grady

    Paul Sharits Interview with Gerard O'Grady

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    This is a rare video interview with one of America’s finest film artists, shot in New York towards the end of his abruptly terminated career.

    Paul Sharits Interview with Gerard O'Grady
  • 1982
    Bad Burns

    Bad Burns

    Bad Burns

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    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...

    Bad Burns
  • 1974
    The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions

    The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions

    The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions

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    Footage of a strip of damaged film.

    The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions