Paul Sharits Movies

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

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

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

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

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

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

Paul Sharits short work

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

A mapping of an image of the linear passage of '16mm film frames' and 'emulsion scratches' onto actual 16mm film strip (the unperceived film...

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...

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...

Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.

“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...

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