Paul Sharits Movies

A flicker film of colorful squares.

Paul Shartis's Ray Gun Virus (1966) is a transfixing, must-see-in-person “flicker” film that distills the cinematic experience to...

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

Sharits produced Color Sound Frames by rephotographing strips of his previous films. He moved the strips, singly and in pairs, across a light table...

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

Blank color frequencies space out and optically feed into monochrome images of one lovemaking act which is seen simultaneously from both sides of its...