T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G,
In this “flicker" film by structural filmmaker Paul Sharits, we encounter an admittedly difficult piece of avant-garde film-making. If we move beyond the initially obvious and banal difficulties of avant-garde...
Paul Sharits
Filmography
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N:O:T:H:I:N:G
In the mid-1960s, Paul Sharits developed an abstract cinema in radical opposition to the pictorial tradition. His works taken together propose a reflection on the very nature of cinema and its component parts: the film strip, single frames, the flow of film through the projector, sprocket holes,...Watch Movie
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T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G,
"If you take the facts of the retina, the flicker mechanism of film projection," Paul Sharits wrote, "then you can make films without logic of language." T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G assaults language rather more directly with its single-word soundtrack ("Destroy") and the image of poet...Watch Movie