Paul Sharits Movies

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

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

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

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

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

Two projectors pulse in tandem

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.

A flicker film of colorful squares.

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...

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

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...

Single frame exposures of words.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.

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...