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,
Cinématon
as N°120Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the...
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Birth of a Nation
as SelfFilmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
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Home Movies 1971-81
as uncreditedHome movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
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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?
as Liveraccio“Freud established that jokes were structurally akin to dreams in their use of condensation,...
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Paul Sharits
as HimselfLong after his premature death, the impact of Paul Sharits lingers on. The prominent iconoclast...
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Rapture
as uncredited'Rapture' is a fierce vision of a Dionysian experience, a tightly controlled visual statement...
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Paul Sharits Interview with Gerard O'Grady
as himselfThis is a rare video interview with one of America’s finest film artists, shot in New York...
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Funtime at the Vasulkas
as uncreditedA recording of a meeting in the studio where Jeffrey Schier and Woody show colleagues and...
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