Paul Sharits

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,

Directed

1. T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (1969) — Director
2. N:O:T:H:I:N:G (1968) — Director
3. Piece Mandala/End War (1966) — Director
4. Word Movie (1966) — Director
5. Razor Blades (1968) — Director
6. Unrolling Event (1965) — Director
7. S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED (1971) — Director
8. Bad Burns (1982) — Director
9. Dots 1 & 2 (1965) — Director
10. Epileptic Seizure Comparison (1976) — Director
11. Color Sound Frames (1974) — Director
12. Wintercourse (1962) — Director
13. Wrist Trick (1965) — Director
14. Tails (1976) — Director
15. Sears Catalogue 1-3 (1965) — Director
16. Shutter Interface (1975) — Director
17. Ray Gun Virus (1966) — Director
18. Sound Strip/Film Strip (1972) — Director
19. Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970 (2010) — Director
20. Rapture (1987) — Director
21. 3D Movie (1975) — Director
22. Analytical Studies III - Color Frame Passages (1974) — Director
23. Dream Displacement (1976) — Director
24. Sketches in Hawaii (1981) — Director
25. Vertical Contiguity (1974) — Director
26. Episodic Generation (1978) — Director
27. Brancusi's Sculpture Garden at Tirgu Jiu (1984) — Director
28. Tirgu Jiu (1976) — Director
29. The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions (1974) — Director
30. Inferential Current (1971) — Director
31. Declarative Mode (1977) — Director
32. 3rd Degree (1982) — Director
33. Analytical Studies II: Unframed Lines (1971) — Director
34. Analytical Studies I: The Film Frame (1971) — Director
35. Analytical Studies IV: Blank Color Frames (1976) — Director
36. Axiomatic Granularity (1973) — Director
37. Synchronousoundtracks (1974) — Director
38. Apparent Motion (1975) — Director
39. Figment I: Fluxglam Voyage in Search of the Real Maciunas (1986) — Director
40. Element Studies: Earth/Water/Sky/Fire (1971) — Director

Also appeared in

1. 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) — Liveraccio
2. Cinématon (1978) — N°120
3. Paul Sharits (2015) — Himself
4. Birth of a Nation (1997) — Self
5. Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)
6. Rapture (1987)
7. Paul Sharits Interview with Gerard O'Grady (1976) — himself
8. Cinématon XIII (1981) — N°120
9. Cinématon n°120 : Paul Sharits (1981)
10. Funtime at the Vasulkas (2006)