Paul Sharits Movies

A set of short pure color studies, usually exploring one dominant hue. Most of these works were studies for longer projects. The last four "migraine"...

Footage of a strip of damaged film.

A flicker film of colorful squares.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

2 screen projection

Particles throb in three dimensions.

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

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 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...

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

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.

Toilet paper event, single frame exposures.

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