Paul Sharits Movies

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...

Long after his premature death, the impact of Paul Sharits lingers on. The prominent iconoclast and innovator provoked with fast-flickering,...

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

Reel 13 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

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.

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

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

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

Two projectors pulse in tandem

A flicker film of colorful squares.

Single frame exposures of words.

A recording of a meeting in the studio where Jeffrey Schier and Woody show colleagues and teachers a new tool. Between 1976 and 1980, Woody and...

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...

Toilet paper event, single frame exposures.