Paul Sharits Movies

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

“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...

Discovered in summer of 1985, of a set of “haiku-imagistic films” I did before coming to my characteristic style, as in Ray Gun Virus; I...

Single frame exposures of dot-screens.

Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.

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...

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...

Toilet paper event, single frame exposures.

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

Single frame exposures of words.

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...

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

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

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

Footage of a strip of damaged film.

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

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

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

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...