Movies: Paul Sharits
- 1978
Cinématon (1978)
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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. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each...
- 1968
Razor Blades (1968)
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In Razor Blades, Paul SHARITS consciously challenges our eyes, ears and minds to withstand a barrage of high powered and often contradictory stimuli. In a careful juxtaposition and fusion of these elements on different parts of our being, usually occ...
- 1966
Word Movie (1966)
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Single frame exposures of words....
- 1971
Inferential Current (1971)
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A mapping of an image of the linear passage of '16mm film frames' and 'emulsion scratches' onto actual 16mm film strip (the unperceived film 'print')/the aural word 'miscellaneous' is extended to a length of 8 minutes by serial fragmentation, looping...
- 1965
Dots 1 & 2 (1965)
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Single frame exposures of dot-screens....
- 2015
Paul Sharits (2015)
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Long after his premature death, the impact of Paul Sharits lingers on. The prominent iconoclast and innovator provoked with fast-flickering, pulsating, colourful mosaics. The many interviews and testimonies are also a portrait of a generation of lead...
- 1985
Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)
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Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years....
- 1981
Cinématon XIII (1981)
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Reel 13 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series....
- 1974
Color Sound Frames (1974)
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Sharits produced Color Sound Frames by rephotographing strips of his previous films. He moved the strips, singly and in pairs, across a light table in front of the camera at various speeds. Sprocket holes of the original strips are visible at the edg...
- 1968
N:O:T:H:I:N:G (1968)
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“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 pearl-like quality of light his flash-frames create … a baroque pearl, one might say – wondrous! … One of the most beautiful fil...
- 1966
Sears Catalogue 1-3 (1966)
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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 consumer society side by side with pictures of female models...
- 1965
Unrolling Event (1965)
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Toilet paper event, single frame exposures....
- 1997
Birth of a Nation (1997)
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Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades....
- 1975
Shutter Interface (1975)
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Two projectors pulse in tandem...
- 1969
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (1969)
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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 tongue with glitter-covered scissors, sometimes suffering a series of glitter-stained fingernail scratches...
- 1976
Tirgu Jiu (1976)
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A flicker film of colorful squares....
- 1974
Synchronousoundtracks (1974)
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- 1975
Apparent Motion (1975)
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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 white strip of underexposed 8mm Tri-X film. The resulting 16mm black and white Plus-X copy was again ...
- 1976
Epileptic Seizure Comparison (1976)
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The films are of two patients, extracted from a medical film study of brain wave activity during seizures....
- 1978
Episodic Generation (1978)
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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 its loss of legibility; yet, both the "degenerated" sound and image are perceptually engaging, even in ...