Paul Sharits Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

Footage of a strip of damaged film.

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...

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

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

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

Two projectors pulse in tandem

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

Particles throb in three dimensions.

A highly varied and playful series of short sketches involving induced camera "mistakes," printing "errors" and various "assaults" upon film (some...

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

2 screen projection

Paul Sharits short work

A recording of a meeting in the studio where Jeffrey Schier and Woody show colleagues and teachers a new tool. Between 1976 and 1980, Woody and...