Paul Sharits Movies

  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

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

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1978
    Cinématon

    Cinématon

    Cinématon

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

    Cinématon
  • 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?
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1975
    Shutter Interface

    Shutter Interface

    Shutter Interface

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    Two projectors pulse in tandem

    Shutter Interface
  • 1976
    Paul Sharits Interview with Gerard O'Grady

    Paul Sharits Interview with Gerard O'Grady

    Paul Sharits Interview with Gerard O'Grady

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    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.

    Paul Sharits Interview with Gerard O'Grady
  • 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
  • 1971
    Analytical Studies II: Un-Frame-Lines

    Analytical Studies II: Un-Frame-Lines

    Analytical Studies II: Un-Frame-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: Un-Frame-Lines
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1965
    Dots 1 & 2

    Dots 1 & 2

    Dots 1 & 2

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    Single frame exposures of dot-screens.

    Dots 1 & 2
  • 1982
    3rd Degree

    3rd Degree

    3rd Degree

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    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...

    3rd Degree
  • 1965
    Unrolling Event

    Unrolling Event

    Unrolling Event

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    Toilet paper event, single frame exposures.

    Unrolling Event
  • 1976
    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
  • 1981
    Sketches in Hawaii

    Sketches in Hawaii

    Sketches in Hawaii

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    2 screen projection

    Sketches in Hawaii
  • 1974
    Synchronousoundtracks

    Synchronousoundtracks

    Synchronousoundtracks

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    Synchronousoundtracks
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1973
    Axiomatic Granularity

    Axiomatic Granularity

    Axiomatic Granularity

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

    Axiomatic Granularity
  • 1978
    Episodic Generation

    Episodic Generation

    Episodic Generation

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

    Episodic Generation