Paul Sharits Movies

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"...

Two reels of mis-takes in shooting Part II of 3RD DEGREE; Film was loaded in camera improperly and the image slides about off-center and becomes...

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

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

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

Single frame exposures of words.

A flicker film of colorful squares.

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

Two projectors pulse in tandem

Discovered in summer of 1985, of a set of “haiku-imagistic films” I did before coming to my characteristic style, as in Ray Gun Virus; I...

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,...

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

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

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

Footage of a strip of damaged film.

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 film consists of seven sections: the first section, "Specimen I," a "flicker" film, is the subject for the other sections of ANALYTICAL STUDIES...

Particles throb in three dimensions.