Paul Sharits Movies

  • 1975
    Apparent Motion

    Apparent Motion

    Apparent Motion

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

    Apparent Motion
  • 1976
    Dream Displacement

    Dream Displacement

    Dream Displacement

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

    Dream Displacement
  • 1976
    Tails

    Tails

    Tails

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    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...

    Tails
  • 1977
    Declarative Mode

    Declarative Mode

    Declarative Mode

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    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...

    Declarative Mode
  • 1968
    Razor Blades

    Razor Blades

    Razor Blades

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

    Razor Blades
  • 2006
    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    Funtime at the Vasulkas

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    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...

    Funtime at the Vasulkas
  • 1971
    S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED

    S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED

    S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED

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

    S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED
  • 1965
    Wrist Trick

    Wrist Trick

    Wrist Trick

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    Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.

    Wrist Trick
  • 1974
    Vertical Contiguity

    Vertical Contiguity

    Vertical Contiguity

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    Paul Sharits short work

    Vertical Contiguity
  • 1972
    Sound Strip/Film Strip

    Sound Strip/Film Strip

    Sound Strip/Film Strip

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

    Sound Strip/Film Strip
  • 1971
    Analytical Studies I: The Film Frame

    Analytical Studies I: The Film Frame

    Analytical Studies I: The Film Frame

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    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"...

    Analytical Studies I: The Film Frame
  • 1969
    T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G

    T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G

    T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G

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    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...

    T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G
  • 1974
    Analytical Studies III - Color Frame Passages

    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...

    Analytical Studies III - Color Frame Passages
  • 1974
    Synchronousoundtracks

    Synchronousoundtracks

    Synchronousoundtracks

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    Synchronousoundtracks
  • 1974
    The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions

    The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions

    The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions

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    Footage of a strip of damaged film.

    The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions
  • 1968
    N:O:T:H:I:N:G

    N:O:T:H:I:N:G

    N:O:T:H:I:N:G

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    “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...

    N:O:T:H:I:N:G
  • 1971
    Analytical Studies II: Unframed Lines

    Analytical Studies II: Unframed Lines

    Analytical Studies II: Unframed Lines

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

    Analytical Studies II: Unframed Lines
  • 1984
    Brancusi's Sculpture Garden at Tirgu Jiu

    Brancusi's Sculpture Garden at Tirgu Jiu

    Brancusi's Sculpture Garden at Tirgu Jiu

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    A chronicle of Sharits' 1977 visit to Romania to experience three of Brancusi's most famous sculptures.

    Brancusi's Sculpture Garden at Tirgu Jiu
  • 1976
    Analytical Studies IV: Blank Color Frames

    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...

    Analytical Studies IV: Blank Color Frames
  • 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?

    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...

    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?