Paul Sharits
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 7, 1943
- Place of birth
- Denver, Colorado, USA
- Died
- July 8, 1993
Biography
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,
Movies with Paul Sharits
- As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2000 · ★ 7.8
- 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? 1977 · ★ 5.1
- Cinématon 1978 · ★ 4.9
- Paul Sharits 2015 · ★ 5.6
- Birth of a Nation 1997 · ★ 7.0
- Home Movies 1971-81 1985
- Rapture 1987
- Paul Sharits Interview with Gerard O'Grady 1976
- Cinématon XIII 1981
- Cinématon n°120 : Paul Sharits 1981
- Funtime at the Vasulkas 2006
Movies directed by Paul Sharits
- T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G 1969 · ★ 5.8
- N:O:T:H:I:N:G 1968 · ★ 4.5
- Piece Mandala/End War 1966 · ★ 4.7
- Razor Blades 1968 · ★ 4.9
- Word Movie 1966 · ★ 6.8
- Unrolling Event 1965 · ★ 4.2
- Dots 1 & 2 1965 · ★ 5.8
- S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED 1971 · ★ 4.3
- Bad Burns 1982 · ★ 5.3
- Epileptic Seizure Comparison 1976 · ★ 7.0
- Color Sound Frames 1974 · ★ 4.2
- Wintercourse 1962 · ★ 7.4
- Wrist Trick 1965 · ★ 6.8
- Tails 1976 · ★ 7.2
- Sears Catalogue 1-3 1965 · ★ 6.5
- Shutter Interface 1975 · ★ 8.0
- Ray Gun Virus 1966 · ★ 8.0
- Sound Strip/Film Strip 1972 · ★ 3.0
- Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970 2010
- Rapture 1987
- 3D Movie 1975
- Analytical Studies III - Color Frame Passages 1974
- Dream Displacement 1976
- Sketches in Hawaii 1981
- Vertical Contiguity 1974
- Episodic Generation 1978
- Brancusi's Sculpture Garden at Tirgu Jiu 1984
- The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions 1974
- Tirgu Jiu 1976
- Inferential Current 1971
- Declarative Mode 1977
- 3rd Degree 1982
- Analytical Studies I: The Film Frame 1971
- Analytical Studies II: Unframed Lines 1971
- Axiomatic Granularity 1973
- Analytical Studies IV: Blank Color Frames 1976
- Synchronousoundtracks 1974
- Apparent Motion 1975
- Figment I: Fluxglam Voyage in Search of the Real Maciunas 1986
- Element Studies: Earth/Water/Sky/Fire 1971