Paul Sharits
Paul Sharits
Person

Paul Sharits

Director 1943-02-07 Denver, Colorado, USA

Trained as a graphic artist and a painter, Paul Sharits became an avant-garde filmmaker noted for manipulating the film stock itself to create a variety of fascinating, abstract light and colorplays when projected on the screen. Fans hail the effects hallucinogenic, while his detractors find them garish. Sharits is also known for establishing experimental film groups at prominent universities, including one at the University of Indiana where he studied. He later taught and developed an undergraduate film program at...

Known for

FILMOGRAPHY
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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

2000 · Self

On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?

On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?

1977 · Liveraccio

Cinématon

Cinématon

1978 · N°120

Paul Sharits

Paul Sharits

2015 · Himself

Birth of a Nation

Birth of a Nation

1997 · Self

Home Movies 1971-81

Home Movies 1971-81

1985 · Movie

Paul Sharits Interview with Gerard O'Grady

Paul Sharits Interview with Gerard O'Grady

1976 · himself

Funtime at the Vasulkas

Funtime at the Vasulkas

2006 · Movie

Rapture

Rapture

1987 · Movie

Cinématon n°120 : Paul Sharits

Cinématon n°120 : Paul Sharits

1981 · Movie

Cinématon XIII

1981 · N°120