Paul Sharits Movies

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

Footage of a strip of damaged film.

2 screen projection

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.

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

Blank color frequencies space out and optically feed into monochrome images of one lovemaking act which is seen simultaneously from both sides of its...

Streaming, scratched lines continuously appear two at a time over images of flowing water.

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...

While composed of pure/blank color frames (often “flickering”), this is not a “Structural Film”; there’s no...

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

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

Particles throb in three dimensions.

Single frame exposures of words.

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

'Rapture' is a fierce vision of a Dionysian experience, a tightly controlled visual statement about the abandonment of self to heightened...

The footage, in order of appearance, is: 1. rock strata – along the banks of the Niagara River, before it empties into Lake Ontario, 1975,...

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

A set of short pure color studies, usually exploring one dominant hue. Most of these works were studies for longer projects. The last four "migraine"...

A flicker film of colorful squares.