Paul Sharits Movies
- 1985
Home Movies 1971-81
Home Movies 1971-8101985HD
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
- 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....
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
- 2015
Paul Sharits
Paul Sharits5.62015HD
Long after his premature death, the impact of Paul Sharits lingers on. The prominent iconoclast and innovator provoked with fast-flickering,...
- 1966
Word Movie
Word Movie6.51966HD
Single frame exposures of words.
- 1966
Sears Catalogue 1-3
Sears Catalogue 1-36.51966HD
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...
- 1965
Wrist Trick
Wrist Trick6.81965HD
Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.
- 1965
Dots 1 & 2
Dots 1 & 261965HD
Single frame exposures of dot-screens.
- 1981
Cinématon XIII
Cinématon XIII01981HD
Reel 13 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
- 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...
- 1970
Cinématon n°120 : Paul Sharits
Cinématon n°120 : Paul Sharits01970HD
- 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...
- 1974
Vertical Contiguity
Vertical Contiguity01974HD
Paul Sharits short work
- 1969
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G5.71969HD
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...
- 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.
- 2006
Funtime at the Vasulkas
Funtime at the Vasulkas02006HD
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...
- 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...
- 1976
Paul Sharits Interview with Gerard O'Grady
Paul Sharits Interview with Gerard O'Grady01976HD
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.
- 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...
- 1974
The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions
The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions01974HD
Footage of a strip of damaged film.