Paul Sharits Movies

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

Single frame exposures of dot-screens.

Footage of a strip of damaged film.

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

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

Paul Sharits short work

A flicker film of colorful squares.

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

Like ANALYTICAL STUDIES I, these short works each develop a different rhythmic and/or melodic idea using only rapid successions of color frames. The...

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

Toilet paper event, single frame exposures.

Two projectors pulse in tandem

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...

“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...

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

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