Paul Sharits Movies

1965
Dots 1 & 2
Dots 1 & 2
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Single frame exposures of dot-screens.
1971
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"...
1966
Ray Gun Virus
Ray Gun Virus
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The film is a transfixing “flicker” film that distills the cinematic experience to projected light and color patterns, allowing...
1974
Analytical Studies III - Color Frame Passages
Analytical Studies III - Color Frame Passages
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The film consists of seven sections: the first section, "Specimen I," a "flicker" film, is the subject for the other sections of ANALYTICAL STUDIES...
1979
Passare I (Italia)
Passare I (Italia)
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While composed of pure/blank color frames (often “flickering”), this is not a “Structural Film”; there’s no...
1981
Sketches in Hawaii
Sketches in Hawaii
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2 screen projection
1986
Figment I: Fluxglam Voyage in Search of the Real Maciunas
Figment I: Fluxglam Voyage in Search of the Real Maciunas
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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?
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“Freud established that jokes were structurally akin to dreams in their use of condensation, displacement, representation by opposites, punning...
1974
The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions
The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions
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Footage of a strip of damaged film.
1974
Color Sound Frames
Color Sound Frames
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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...