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,
Birth of a Nation
as SelfFilmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
Movie pagePaul Sharits
as HimselfLong after his premature death, the impact of Paul Sharits lingers on. The prominent iconoclast...
Movie pageHome Movies 1971-81
as uncreditedHome movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
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as uncreditedA recording of a meeting in the studio where Jeffrey Schier and Woody show colleagues and...
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as uncredited'Rapture' is a fierce vision of a Dionysian experience, a tightly controlled visual statement...
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