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...

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...

Particles throb in three dimensions.

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

Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.

T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G uses flickering frames of solid color juxtaposed with positive and negative still images of a man—sometimes cutting off his own...

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...

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

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

Paul Sharits short work

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

“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...

2 screen projection

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

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

The footage, in order of appearance, is: 1. rock strata – along the banks of the Niagara River, before it empties into Lake Ontario, 1975,...

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

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

Footage of a strip of damaged film.