Paul Sharits Movies

A flicker film of colorful squares.

Toilet paper event, single frame exposures.

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

Particles throb in three dimensions.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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...

Paul Sharits short work

“Freud established that jokes were structurally akin to dreams in their use of condensation, displacement, representation by opposites, punning...

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...

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

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 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...

Footage of a strip of damaged film.