Paul Sharits Movies

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

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.

2 screen projection

Like ANALYTICAL STUDIES I, these short works each develop a different rhythmic and/or melodic idea using only rapid successions of color frames. The...

Paul Sharits short work

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...

Paul Shartis's Ray Gun Virus (1966) is a transfixing, must-see-in-person “flicker” film that distills the cinematic experience to...

The images for this project were first obtained by enlarging, with an optical printer, frames of evenly distributed grain particles from a black and...

Film by Paul Sharits presented as double projection theatrically and quadruple projection in galleries.

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

The visual "degeneration" of the image ... through successive rephotography is paralleled by the compression of verbal information to the point of...

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

Sound Strip / Film Strip is Paul Sharits' first "Locational" work, made in collaboration with Bill Brand. The piece was commissioned for the 1972...

Single frame exposures of words.

"There is a paradox in such artistically special (and significant) films as Sharits' very real and reflexively beautiful AXIOMATIC GRANULARITY. It is...

“The screen, illuminated by Paul Sharits’ N:O:T:H:I:N:G, seems to assume a spherical shape, at times – due, I think, to a...

A chronicle of Sharits' 1977 visit to Romania to experience three of Brancusi's most famous sculptures.

In Razor Blades, Paul SHARITS consciously challenges our eyes, ears and minds to withstand a barrage of high powered and often contradictory stimuli....

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...