Paul Sharits
Trained as a graphic artist and a painter, Paul Sharits became an avant-garde filmmaker noted for manipulating the film stock itself to create a variety of fascinating, abstract light and colorplays when projected on the screen. Fans hail the effects hallucinogenic, while his detractors find them garish. Sharits is also known for establishing experimental film groups at prominent universities, including one at the University of Indiana where he studied. He later taught and developed an undergraduate film program at Antioch College. Between 1973 and 1992, Sharits taught at the Center for Media Study at the State University of New York. His films can be seen in various U.S. and European museums, film centers, and libraries. Much of his work can be found in the Anthology Film Archives in New York City. ~ Sandra Brennan,
Home Movies 1971-81
Paul Sharits
(Himself)
Rapture
Paul Sharits Interview with Gerard O'Grady
(himself)
Birth of a Nation
(Self)
Cinématon
(N°120)
Cinématon XIII
(N°120)
Cinématon n°120 : Paul Sharits
Funtime at the Vasulkas
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?
(Liveraccio)
Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970
(Director)
S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED
(Director)
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G
(Director)
N:O:T:H:I:N:G
(Director)
Bad Burns
(Director)
Wintercourse
(Director)
Piece Mandala/End War
(Director)
Tails
(Director)
Epileptic Seizure Comparison
(Director)
Razor Blades
(Director)
Ray Gun Virus
(Director)
Color Sound Frames
(Director)
Rapture
(Director)
Rapture
(Producer)
Word Movie
(Director)
Sears Catalogue 1-3
(Director)
Dots 1 & 2
(Director)
Wrist Trick
(Director)
Unrolling Event
(Director)
Shutter Interface
(Director)
3D Movie
(Director)
Analytical Studies III - Color Frame Passages
(Director)
Dream Displacement
(Director)
Vertical Contiguity
(Director)
Sketches in Hawaii
(Director)
Episodic Generation
(Director)
Brancusi's Sculpture Garden at Tirgu Jiu
(Director)
Tirgu Jiu
(Director)
The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions
(Director)
Inferential Current
(Director)
Sound Strip/Film Strip
(Director)
Declarative Mode
(Director)
Declarative Mode
(Producer)
3rd Degree
(Director)
Axiomatic Granularity
(Director)
Analytical Studies I: The Film Frame
(Director)
Analytical Studies II: Un-Frame-Lines
(Director)
Analytical Studies IV: Blank Color Frames
(Director)
Synchronousoundtracks
(Director)
Apparent Motion
(Director)
Figment I: Fluxglam Voyage in Search of the Real Maciunas
(Director)