Paul Sharits Movies

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

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

A flicker film of colorful squares.

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

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

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...

Footage of a strip of damaged film.

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