Movies

Long after his premature death, the impact of Paul Sharits lingers on. The prominent iconoclast and innovator provoked with fast-flickering,...

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

“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...

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

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

Three-screen film. On the first screen, close-ups of an agitated match in front of a young woman's fearful face. On the soundtrack: matches, warnings...

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"...

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

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

A flicker film of colorful squares.

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

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

Toilet paper event, single frame exposures.

The film is a transfixing “flicker” film that distills the cinematic experience to projected light and color patterns, allowing...

Particles throb in three dimensions.

2 screen projection

Single frame exposures of dot-screens.

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

Single frame exposures of words.