Paul Sharits

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,

  • Title: Paul Sharits
  • Popularity: 0.545
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1943-02-07
  • Place of Birth: Denver, Colorado, USA
  • Homepage: http://paulsharits.com/
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Paul Sharits Movies

  • 1985
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    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    1 1985 HD

    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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  • 2015
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    Paul Sharits

    Paul Sharits

    5.6 2015 HD

    Long after his premature death, the impact of Paul Sharits lingers on. The prominent iconoclast and innovator provoked with fast-flickering,...

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  • 1987
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    Rapture

    Rapture

    1 1987 HD

    'Rapture' is a fierce vision of a Dionysian experience, a tightly controlled visual statement about the abandonment of self to heightened...

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  • 1976
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    Paul Sharits Interview with Gerard O'Grady

    Paul Sharits Interview with Gerard O'Grady

    1 1976 HD

    This is a rare video interview with one of America’s finest film artists, shot in New York towards the end of his abruptly terminated career.

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  • 1997
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    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    6.3 1997 HD

    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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  • 1978
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    Cinématon

    Cinématon

    4.3 1978 HD

    Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

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  • 1981
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    Cinématon XIII

    Cinématon XIII

    1 1981 HD

    Reel 13 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

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  • 1970
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    Cinématon n°120 : Paul Sharits

    Cinématon n°120 : Paul Sharits

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2006
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    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    1 2006 HD

    A recording of a meeting in the studio where Jeffrey Schier and Woody show colleagues and teachers a new tool. Between 1976 and 1980, Woody and...

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  • 1977
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    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?

    4.9 1977 HD

    “Freud established that jokes were structurally akin to dreams in their use of condensation, displacement, representation by opposites, punning...

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  • 2010
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    Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970

    Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970

    1 2010 HD

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  • 1971
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    S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED

    S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED

    3.6 1971 HD

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  • 1969
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    T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G

    T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G

    5.7 1969 HD

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  • 1968
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    N:O:T:H:I:N:G

    N:O:T:H:I:N:G

    4.5 1968 HD

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  • 1982
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    Bad Burns

    Bad Burns

    5.3 1982 HD

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  • 1962
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    Wintercourse

    Wintercourse

    7.4 1962 HD

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  • 1966
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    Piece Mandala/End War

    Piece Mandala/End War

    4.7 1966 HD

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  • 1976
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    Epileptic Seizure Comparison

    Epileptic Seizure Comparison

    7 1976 HD

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  • 1976
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    Tails

    Tails

    7.2 1976 HD

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  • 1968
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    Razor Blades

    Razor Blades

    5 1968 HD

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  • 1966
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    Ray Gun Virus

    Ray Gun Virus

    8 1966 HD

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  • 1974
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    Color Sound Frames

    Color Sound Frames

    4.2 1974 HD

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  • 1987
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    Rapture

    Rapture

    1 1987 HD

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  • 1987
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    Rapture

    Rapture

    1 1987 HD

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  • 1966
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    Word Movie

    Word Movie

    6.5 1966 HD

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  • 1966
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    Sears Catalogue 1-3

    Sears Catalogue 1-3

    6.5 1966 HD

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  • 1965
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    Dots 1 & 2

    Dots 1 & 2

    6 1965 HD

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  • 1965
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    Unrolling Event

    Unrolling Event

    4.188 1965 HD

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  • 1965
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    Wrist Trick

    Wrist Trick

    6.8 1965 HD

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  • 1975
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    Shutter Interface

    Shutter Interface

    8 1975 HD

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  • 1975
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    3D Movie

    3D Movie

    1 1975 HD

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  • 1974
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    Analytical Studies III - Color Frame Passages

    Analytical Studies III - Color Frame Passages

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1976
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    Dream Displacement

    Dream Displacement

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1981
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    Sketches in Hawaii

    Sketches in Hawaii

    1 1981 HD

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  • 1974
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    Vertical Contiguity

    Vertical Contiguity

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1978
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    Episodic Generation

    Episodic Generation

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1984
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    Brancusi's Sculpture Garden at Tirgu Jiu

    Brancusi's Sculpture Garden at Tirgu Jiu

    1 1984 HD

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  • 1976
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    Tirgu Jiu

    Tirgu Jiu

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1974
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    The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions

    The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1971
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    Inferential Current

    Inferential Current

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1972
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    Sound Strip/Film Strip

    Sound Strip/Film Strip

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1977
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    Declarative Mode

    Declarative Mode

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1977
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    Declarative Mode

    Declarative Mode

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1982
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    3rd Degree

    3rd Degree

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1971
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    Analytical Studies II: Un-Frame-Lines

    Analytical Studies II: Un-Frame-Lines

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1976
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    Analytical Studies I: The Film Frame

    Analytical Studies I: The Film Frame

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1976
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    Analytical Studies IV: Blank Color Frames

    Analytical Studies IV: Blank Color Frames

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1973
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    Axiomatic Granularity

    Axiomatic Granularity

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1974
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    Synchronousoundtracks

    Synchronousoundtracks

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1975
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    Apparent Motion

    Apparent Motion

    1 1975 HD

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  • 1986
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    Figment I: Fluxglam Voyage in Search of the Real Maciunas

    Figment I: Fluxglam Voyage in Search of the Real Maciunas

    1 1986 HD

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