Paul Sharits Movies

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

Particles throb in three dimensions.

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

A flicker film of colorful squares.

Two projectors pulse in tandem

Single frame exposures of words.

Two reels of mis-takes in shooting Part II of 3RD DEGREE; Film was loaded in camera improperly and the image slides about off-center and becomes...

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...

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...

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

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

“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...

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

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

Each film frame is a different image from the Sears Roebuck mail order catalogue. The film places pictures of the objects sold by Sears to the...

Single frame exposures of dot-screens.

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

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