Movies

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

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

T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G uses flickering frames of solid color juxtaposed with positive and negative still images of a man—sometimes cutting off his own...

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

Single frame exposures of dot-screens.

“The screen, illuminated by Paul Sharits’ N:O:T:H:I:N:G, seems to assume a spherical shape, at times – due, I think, to a...

Each film frame is a different image from the Sears Roebuck mail order catalogue. The film places pictures of the objects sold by Sears to the...

The films are of two patients, extracted from a medical film study of brain wave activity during seizures.

The images for this project were first obtained by enlarging, with an optical printer, frames of evenly distributed grain particles from a black and...

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

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

In Razor Blades, Paul SHARITS consciously challenges our eyes, ears and minds to withstand a barrage of high powered and often contradictory stimuli....

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

Three-screen film. On the first screen, close-ups of an agitated match in front of a young woman's fearful face. On the soundtrack: matches, warnings...

Discovered in summer of 1985, of a set of “haiku-imagistic films” I did before coming to my characteristic style, as in Ray Gun Virus; I...

Blank color frequencies space out and optically feed into monochrome images of one lovemaking act which is seen simultaneously from both sides of its...

Footage of a strip of damaged film.

Single frame exposures of words.

The film consists of two identical prints shown simultaneously, one projected inside the image of the other. The inner image is out of sync one...

Sharits produced Color Sound Frames by rephotographing strips of his previous films. He moved the strips, singly and in pairs, across a light table...