Paul Sharits Movies

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...

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

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

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

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

This is a rare video interview with one of America’s finest film artists, shot in New York towards the end of his abruptly terminated career.

Reel 13 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

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...

Particles throb in three dimensions.

The visual "degeneration" of the image ... through successive rephotography is paralleled by the compression of verbal information to the point of...

Toilet paper event, single frame exposures.

A flicker film of colorful squares.

Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.

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...

Single frame exposures of words.

Two projectors pulse in tandem

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

Footage of a strip of damaged film.

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...