Movies
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
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- 1985
Home Movies 1971-81
Home Movies 1971-8101985HD
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
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- 1978
Cinématon
Cinématon4.31978HD
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....
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- 1977
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?4.91977HD
“Freud established that jokes were structurally akin to dreams in their use of condensation, displacement, representation by opposites, punning...
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- 1974
Color Sound Frames
Color Sound Frames4.21974HD
Sharits produced Color Sound Frames by rephotographing strips of his previous films. He moved the strips, singly and in pairs, across a light table...
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- 1971
Inferential Current
Inferential Current01971HD
A mapping of an image of the linear passage of '16mm film frames' and 'emulsion scratches' onto actual 16mm film strip (the unperceived film...
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- 1966
Word Movie
Word Movie6.51966HD
Single frame exposures of words.
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- 2015
Paul Sharits
Paul Sharits5.62015HD
Long after his premature death, the impact of Paul Sharits lingers on. The prominent iconoclast and innovator provoked with fast-flickering,...
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- 1982
Bad Burns
Bad Burns5.31982HD
Two reels of mis-takes in shooting Part II of 3RD DEGREE. Film was loaded in camera improperly and the image slides about off-center and becomes...
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- 1968
Razor Blades
Razor Blades51968HD
In Razor Blades, Paul SHARITS consciously challenges our eyes, ears and minds to withstand a barrage of high powered and often contradictory stimuli....
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- 1966
Ray Gun Virus
Ray Gun Virus81966HD
Paul Shartis's Ray Gun Virus (1966) is a transfixing, must-see-in-person “flicker” film that distills the cinematic experience to...
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- 1987
Rapture
Rapture01987HD
'Rapture' is a fierce vision of a Dionysian experience, a tightly controlled visual statement about the abandonment of self to heightened...
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- 1969
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G5.71969HD
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...
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- 1965
Dots 1 & 2
Dots 1 & 261965HD
Single frame exposures of dot-screens.
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- 1965
Wrist Trick
Wrist Trick6.81965HD
Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.
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- 1968
N:O:T:H:I:N:G
N:O:T:H:I:N:G4.51968HD
“The screen, illuminated by Paul Sharits’ N:O:T:H:I:N:G, seems to assume a spherical shape, at times – due, I think, to a...
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- 1962
Wintercourse
Wintercourse7.41962HD
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...
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- 1966
Sears Catalogue 1-3
Sears Catalogue 1-36.51966HD
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...
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- 1965
Unrolling Event
Unrolling Event4.1881965HD
Toilet paper event, single frame exposures.
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- 1976
Epileptic Seizure Comparison
Epileptic Seizure Comparison71976HD
The films are of two patients, extracted from a medical film study of brain wave activity during seizures.
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