Movies

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....

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

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

Single frame exposures of words.

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

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

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...

A set of short pure color studies, usually exploring one dominant hue. Most of these works were studies for longer projects. The last four "migraine"...

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...

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

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

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...

Single frame exposures of dot-screens.

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

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...

Sound Strip / Film Strip is Paul Sharits' first "Locational" work, made in collaboration with Bill Brand. The piece was commissioned for the 1972...

Two projectors pulse in tandem

The film consists of seven sections: the first section, "Specimen I," a "flicker" film, is the subject for the other sections of ANALYTICAL STUDIES...

A mapping of an image of the linear passage of '16mm film frames' and 'emulsion scratches' onto actual 16mm film strip (the unperceived film...