Paul Sharits Movies

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

Two projectors pulse in tandem

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

Paul Sharits short work

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

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

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

2 screen projection

Footage of a strip of damaged film.

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 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...

Particles throb in three dimensions.

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"...

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...

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

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

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

Single frame exposures of words.