Paul Sharits Movies

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

Toilet paper event, single frame exposures.

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

The film consists of two identical prints shown simultaneously, one projected inside the image of the other. The inner image is out of sync one...

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

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

Two projectors pulse in tandem

Footage of a strip of damaged film.

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

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

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

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.

A highly varied and playful series of short sketches involving induced camera "mistakes," printing "errors" and various "assaults" upon film (some...

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

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

2 screen projection

Paul Sharits short work

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...