Paul Sharits Movies

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...

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

Toilet paper event, single frame exposures.

Two projectors pulse in tandem

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

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...

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

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...

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

Reel 13 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

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

Footage of a strip of damaged film.

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

Particles throb in three dimensions.

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...

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

Paul Sharits short work

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