A noteworthy participant in the American avant-garde cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, Paul Sharits (1943-1993) was also a teacher, painter, and proponent of "structural film." Intrigued by the physical properties of the filmstrip, its development and projection, Sharits created a series of films that examined the boundaries of physical perception. Driven by what he descibed as an "inescapable anxiety," Sharits unleashed his painterly explosions of light, color and rhythm in a distinct style, forever altering the history of cinema. N:O:T:H:I:N:G is a "journey toward the center of pure consciousness" while Epileptic Seizure Comparison is a study of two patients entering the convulsion stage of seizures and finally Razor Blades is a dual projection "location" that revolves around cutouts, objects, and rhythmic flickering of color.