Inescapable Anxieties: Films by Paul Sharits
922 Ankeny
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About This Screening
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.
Program Details
Tuesday March 15 + Wednesday March 16
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N:O:T:H:I:N:G
1968, 16mm, color, sound, 36 min. -
Epileptic Seizure Comparison
1976, 16mm, color, sound, 34 min. -
Razor Blades
1956-68, 16mm x 2, color, sound, 25 min.
Screenings This Season
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Feb. 22
Excavations in Time Mar. 15
Inescapable Anxieties: Films by Paul Sharits Mar. 30
Structural Ethnographies: Sharon Lockhart Apr. 21
Within/Without: New Films by Gatten and Hutton May. 10
Essential Cinema! : Avant-Garde Shorts 1964-72 May. 24 + 25, Dec. 31
A Place in the World: Robert Frank Jun. 7 + 8, May. 9
To Murder The Cinema: Visions of Marguerite Duras