Paul Sharits Movies

1976
Analytical Studies IV: Blank Color Frames
Analytical Studies IV: Blank Color Frames
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Like ANALYTICAL STUDIES I, these short works each develop a different rhythmic and/or melodic idea using only rapid successions of color frames. The...
1971
Element Studies: Earth/Water/Sky/Fire
Element Studies: Earth/Water/Sky/Fire
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The footage, in order of appearance, is: 1. rock strata – along the banks of the Niagara River, before it empties into Lake Ontario, 1975,...
1965
Dots 1 & 2
Dots 1 & 2
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Single frame exposures of dot-screens.
1974
Analytical Studies III - Color Frame Passages
Analytical Studies III - Color Frame Passages
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The film consists of seven sections: the first section, "Specimen I," a "flicker" film, is the subject for the other sections of ANALYTICAL STUDIES...
1974
The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions
The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions
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Footage of a strip of damaged film.
1965
Sears Catalogue 1-3
Sears Catalogue 1-3
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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...
1974
Color Sound Frames
Color Sound Frames
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Sharits produced Color Sound Frames by rephotographing strips of his previous films. He moved the strips, singly and in pairs, across a light table...
1976
Epileptic Seizure Comparison
Epileptic Seizure Comparison
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The films are of two patients, extracted from a medical film study of brain wave activity during seizures.
1977
On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?
On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?
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“Freud established that jokes were structurally akin to dreams in their use of condensation, displacement, representation by opposites, punning...