Paul Sharits

An incredible masterwork of avant-garde cinema. Not much more can be said, as the true beauty comes through in viewing the piece, not talking about it.

Two reels of mis-takes in shooting Part II of 3RD DEGREE. Film was loaded in camera improperly and the image slides about off-center and becomes blurred - creating some rather amusing and mysterious imagery. A made "found" object. --ubu.com

Blank color frequencies space out and optically feed into black and white images of one lovemaking act which is seen simultaneously from both sides of its space and both ends of its time. (canyon cinema)

Approximately 50 words visually "repeated" in varying sequential and positioned relationships/spoken word soundtrack/structured, each frame being a different word or word fragment, so that the individual words optically-conceptually fuse into one three and three-quarter minute-long word. (MUBI)

Single frame exposures of dot-screens. (MUBI)

"Pages from Sears catalogue, single frame exp." (Electronic Arts Intermix)

"Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures." (Electronic Arts Intermix)

"Toilet paper event, single frame exposures." (Electronic Arts Intermix)

A series of tail ends of varied strips of film, with sometimes recognizable images dissolving into light flares, appear to run through and off of a projector. A romantic "narrative," suggesting an "ending," is inferred. (MUBI)

The film concerns my marriage, which lasted seven years; it was shot during its first year, when I was a painting student at the University of Denver. It is full of apprehensions, in a montage style which counterposes "opposites": sexuality and religion; seasonal opposites; hopefulness undercut by fears of eventual separation (the image of a statue of two women, arm in arm, reading a book). I find it visually and kinetically interesting, after all these years. (Paul Sharits)

Razor Blades follows the tradition of the stroboscopic films which affect our eyes on a physical level, causing an almost hypnotic transference of light from the screen of our minds. (lightcone.org)

Streaming, scratched lines continuously appear two at a time over images of flowing water. (imdb)

14 minutes of flickering colors.

The bulk of the piece is simply flashing colors, but occasional glimpses of a light bulb and a chair falling over are seen as well.

A film roll is scrolling along the screen in changing speeds.

Epileptic Seizure Comparison is an attempt to orchestrate sound and light rhythms in an intimate and proportional space, an ongoing location wherein non-epileptic persons may begin to experience, under 'controlled conditions' the majestic potentials of convulsive seizure. (Light Cone)

Three-screen film. On the first screen, close-ups of an agitated match in front of a young woman’s fearful face. The ribbon runs at variable speeds, sometimes blurring, sometimes slowing down, to stop, on which the image / celluloid begins to fry and to burn, then leaves, runs, stops again, leaves again … On the second screen we see the first rephotographed; here the “burns” are both fixed or new (a burn in the second degree). On the third screen, we see the second screen rephotographed.