Paul Sharits Movies

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...

Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Footage of a strip of damaged film.

Paul Sharits short work

“Freud established that jokes were structurally akin to dreams in their use of condensation, displacement, representation by opposites, punning...

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

“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...

2 screen projection

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"...

The footage, in order of appearance, is: 1. rock strata – along the banks of the Niagara River, before it empties into Lake Ontario, 1975,...

Like ANALYTICAL STUDIES I, these short works each develop a different rhythmic and/or melodic idea using only rapid successions of color frames. The...

While composed of pure/blank color frames (often “flickering”), this is not a “Structural Film”; there’s no...