Paul Sharits Movies

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 film consists of two identical prints shown simultaneously, one projected inside the image of the other. The inner image is out of sync one...

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

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.

Particles throb in three dimensions.

Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Single frame exposures of dot-screens.

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

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

2 screen projection