Paul Sharits Movies

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

This is a rare video interview with one of America’s finest film artists, shot in New York towards the end of his abruptly terminated career.

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

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

Two projectors pulse in tandem

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

Single frame exposures of words.

Toilet paper event, single frame exposures.

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...

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.

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

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

A flicker film of colorful squares.

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

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

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

Particles throb in three dimensions.