Paul Sharits Movies

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.

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

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

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...

Sharits produced Color Sound Frames by rephotographing strips of his previous films. He moved the strips, singly and in pairs, across a light table...

Two projectors pulse in tandem

Toilet paper event, single frame exposures.

Single frame exposures of dot-screens.

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

Blank color frequencies space out and optically feed into monochrome images of one lovemaking act which is seen simultaneously from both sides of its...

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

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

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

Footage of a strip of damaged film.

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...

“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,...