Paul Sharits Movies

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

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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

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

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

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...

Single frame exposures of words.

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

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...

2 screen projection

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

Paul Sharits short work

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

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...

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

“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...

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

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

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