Paul Sharits Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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