Paul Sharits

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

P. Adams Sitney talks with filmmaker Paul Sharits about his 8 years of film beginning with "Raygun Virus" and "Touching" made during his focus on individualizing film frame at 24 frames per second. He talks his concern with the basic module of cinema, the single frame, and of the emergent optical phenomena produced by watching this work. He says it can be irritating but if people relax the film can take on a totally different effect.

His early films have been called flicker films. Sharits says they also represent the camera's shutter activity. He says he is concerned with how the viewer receives the film. He says he is interested in generating temporal colors that collide in the viewers mind though the persistance of vision.

Sharits also talks about his film "Color Sound Frames."

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