Paul Sharits Movies

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

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

A set of short pure color studies, usually exploring one dominant hue. Most of these works were studies for longer projects. The last four "migraine"...

Single frame exposures of dot-screens.

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

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

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

Paul Shartis's Ray Gun Virus (1966) is a transfixing, must-see-in-person “flicker” film that distills the cinematic experience to...

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...

Footage of a strip of damaged film.

2 screen projection

Single frame exposures of words.

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...

Sound Strip / Film Strip is Paul Sharits' first "Locational" work, made in collaboration with Bill Brand. The piece was commissioned for the 1972...

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

A flicker film of colorful squares.