Paul Sharits Movies

Toilet paper event, single frame exposures.

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...

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...

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 highly varied and playful series of short sketches involving induced camera "mistakes," printing "errors" and various "assaults" upon film (some...

Two projectors pulse in tandem

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...

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

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...

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

Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.

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

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

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

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

Paul Sharits short work

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

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

The films are of two patients, extracted from a medical film study of brain wave activity during seizures.

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