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... Read full bio →
Color Sound Frames
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.
S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED
Streaming, scratched lines continuously appear two at a time over images of flowing water.
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G
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 across the face.
Razor Blades
In Razor Blades, Paul SHARITS consciously challenges our eyes, ears and minds to withstand a barrage of high powered and often contradictory stimuli.
N:O:T:H:I:N:G
“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 films I’ve seen.” – Stan Brakhage
Wrist Trick
A closeup of a hand using a razor to slit a wrist, flickering by alternating between positive and negative frames.
Fluxfilm No. 26: Sears Catalogue 1-3
A film of flickering photographs taken from various Sears Catalogues.
Dots 1 & 2
Featuring a hypnotic illusion using two black-and-white sets of dots.