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Paul Sharits

Paul Jeffrey Sharits (February 7, 1943, Denver, Colorado - July 8, 1993, Buffalo, New York)

Paul Sharits was a visual artist, best known for his work in experimental or avant-garde filmmaking, particularly what became known as the structural film movement, along with artists such as Tony Conrad, Hollis Frampton, and Michael Snow.

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United States

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  • Spectrum Between presents: Textual Film

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    This 16mm program features four films engaged variously with ideas of "text-as-image." Whereas Chaplin and Murnau once rejected silent era intertitling practices as "unfilmic," these filmmakers explore how text on screen could be just the opposite. Proposing self-consciously literal responses to longstanding scholarly questions about "film language," these conceptual works are as playful and comedic as they are formally rigorous.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, December 6, 2025 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Special Features - Portland, United States

  • Flicker Film

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    TUSSLEMUSCLE (Steve Cossman, 2007)

    An all-ana­log pro­gram around the his­to­ries and tra­di­ti­ons of the ​‘flic­ker film’, from its ori­gins in the 1960s up until today, high­ligh­ting some les­ser shown key works. 

    Dates: 

    Monday, December 16, 2024 - 20:00

    Venue: 

    Art Cinema OFFoff - Ghent, Belgium

  • exf f. 2024

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    exf f. – days of experimental film frankfurt is an annual festival dedicated to experimental and avant-garde film in all its diversity, both historical and contemporary.
    Offering no competition, exf f. is defined by a non-hierarchical understanding of filmmaking and film culture, aiming in particular to showcase film practices that focus on analogue film (be it Super 8, 16mm, 35mm or 70mm).

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, September 4, 2024 (All day) to Sunday, September 8, 2024 (All day)

  • Declarative Comparisons: Two by Paul Sharits

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    Join us on MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26th, at 7pm, at the Film-Makers' Cooperative (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) for two essential Paul Sharits films, curated by Andrew Reichel!

    Dates: 

    Monday, February 26, 2024 - 19:00

    Venue: 

    Filmmakers Co-op - New York, United States

  • Afterimage

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    Dates: 

    Wednesday, June 7, 2023 (All day) to Thursday, June 22, 2023 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Cinematek - Brussels, Belgium

  • Notes after Long Silence. On Austrian and American Structural Film

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    In the early 1960ies, a number of filmmakers emerged in the United States and Europe to produce remarkable films that challenged any previous formal tendency in avant-garde filmmaking. The Structuralist filmmakers— including Peter Kubelka, Tony Conrad, Paul Sharits, and Kurt Kren––arranged their shots according to mathematical principles, attempting to produce non-narrative and non-illusionist films to oppose the cinematic apparatus.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, May 4, 2023 (All day)
    Saturday, May 6, 2023 (All day)

  • Xcèntric: Werner Nekes / Paul Sharits. For a vibrant cinema

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    Spacecut (Werner Nekes, 1971)

    In the structuralist films in this session, German Werner Nekes and American Paul Sharits each start out from a single resource: panoramic views of the horizon and the double screening of pure colours. This allows them to musically explore the variations of light and colour, expanding the screen and broadening our perception.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 19:00

    Venue: 

    Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain

  • Bozar Cinema: Bruce McClure & Paul Sharits

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    Bruce McClure

    The performances of Bruce McClure (US) are physical experiences, hallucinatory and immersive, that stretch boundaries while celebrating the movie going experience. Working with 16mm projectors and guitar effect pedals, McClure elaborates powerful pieces that play with light, sound, the space of the performance and the viewer’s perception. “The total effect converts the room into an enormous reverberation chamber for both ear and eye, throbbing with mechanical thunder and lightning” (ArtForum).

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - 20:00 to Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Bozar Cinema (Centre For Fine Arts) - Bruxelles, Belgium

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