Paul Sharits Movies

The visual "degeneration" of the image ... through successive rephotography is paralleled by the compression of verbal information to the point of...

A chronicle of Sharits' 1977 visit to Romania to experience three of Brancusi's most famous sculptures.

"There is a paradox in such artistically special (and significant) films as Sharits' very real and reflexively beautiful AXIOMATIC GRANULARITY. It is...

A mapping of an image of the linear passage of '16mm film frames' and 'emulsion scratches' onto actual 16mm film strip (the unperceived film...

Paul Shartis's Ray Gun Virus (1966) is a transfixing, must-see-in-person “flicker” film that distills the cinematic experience to...

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...