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....

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

Single frame exposures of dot-screens.

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...

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

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

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...

“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...

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...

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

Single frame exposures of words.

Toilet paper event, single frame exposures.

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

Long after his premature death, the impact of Paul Sharits lingers on. The prominent iconoclast and innovator provoked with fast-flickering,...