Paul Sharits Movies

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Toilet paper event, single frame exposures.

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"...

Paul Sharits short work

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...

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.

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...

“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...

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

Single frame exposures of words.