Resume
Paul Jeffrey Sharits
a participant in the American Avante Garde Cinema of the 1960's and 1970's
a professor of Media Studies and proponent of Structural Film
an experimental filmmaker and artist
Born:
Denver, Colorado USA, February 7th, 1943
Education:
University of Denver, BFA (painting)
Indiana University, MFA (visual Design)
Work, Exhibitions, and Film Installations:
(incomplete list; please contact csharits@comcast.net with updates)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
Arco Center of Visual Arts, Los Angeles
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Il.
Arte France Développement (programmes de télévision) - Paris, France
Barbican Centre - London, UK
Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY, USA
Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, NY, USA
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Cinematheque Francaise- Paris, France
Cinema Project-Portland, Oregon, USA
Denver Art Museum - Denver, Colorado, USA
Deutsche Kinemathek: Musuem für Film und Fernsehen - Berlin, Germany
Emily Harvey Gallery, NYC
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
Greene Naftali Gallery - NYC, NY, USA
Guggenheim - NYC, NY, USA
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center-Buffalo, NY, USA
Harvard University Art Museums: FOGG Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, USA
Hirshhorn Museum - Washington, D.C., USA
La Cinémathèque Française - Paris, France
Musée du Louvre - Paris, France
Musée national d'Art moderne - Centre Georges POMPIDOU -Paris, France
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA)- Denver, Colorado, USA
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) - NYC, NY, Paris, France
Museums of Strasbourg (Musees de la ville de Strasbourg)- France
Office of Contemporary Art Norway- Oslo, Norway
Smithsonian - Washington, D.C., USA
Wallraf Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
Whitney Museum of American Art-NYC, NY, USA
ZKM: Museum für Neue Kunst - Karlsruhe, Germany
Locational Film Installations(Shutter Interface):
Artpark, Lewiston, NY, four projector "Shutter Interface"
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston,Tx, four projector "Shutter Interface"
Greene Naftali Gallery, NYC, four projector "Shutter Interface"
Hirshhorn, Washington, D.C., four projector "Shutter Interface"
Whitney Museum, NYC, Two projector version of "Shutter Interface"
Teaching:
Maryland Art Institute, Balimore, MD, Film Instructor
Antioch College, Yellolw Springs, Ohio, Assistent Professor of Film
The University of Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, NY, Professor Media Studies
Awards:
National Endowment Art Grant for Film 1979 - 1982
Creative Project Grant 1983
DAAD Fellowship Berlin 1987 - 1989
Nominated for Solo Show of the Year, Gallery, Guggenheim Musuem 2009
Films
Wintercourse 12 minutes, silent, 1962
Ray Gun Virus 14 minutes, silent, 1966
Unrolling Event (Fluxfilm) 9 seconds, silent 1966
Wrist Trick (Fluxfilm 28) 30 seconds, silent, 1966
Dots 1 & 2 (Fluxfilm 27) 30 seconds, silent, 1966
Sears Catalogue (Fluxfilm 26) 47 seconds, silent, 1966
Word Movie (Fluxfilm 29) 4 minutes, silent, 1966
Piece Mandala/End War 5 minutes, 1966
Razor Blades 25 minutes, two screens, 1965-68
N:O:T:H:I:N:G 36 minutes, silent, 1968
T, O, U, C, H, I, N, G, 36 minutes, 1968
S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED 42 minutes, 1968-71
Inferential Current 8 minutes, 1971
Sound Strip/Film Strip, two screens, 25 minutes, 1971-72
Sound Strip/Film Strip, four screens, 8 minutes, 1971-72
Axiomatic Granularity 20 minutes, 1972-3
Damaged Film Loop (alternate title: The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions)
Indefinite duration, two-screen vertical projection with one image above the other, quadraphonic sound, 1972-1974
Synchronousoundtracks 32.5 minutes, two screens, 1973-1974
Synchronoussoundtracks, 10 minutes each, three-screen projection, synchronous sprocket hole sound (triphonic sound), locational film piece, 1974
Color Sound Frames 6.5 minutes, 1974
Vertical Contiguity, 15 minutes, 2-screen projection, 1974
Analytical Studies III: Color Frame Passages 22 minutes, 1973-74
Apparent Motion 30 minutes, 1975
Element Studies: Earth/Water/Sky/Fire 15 minutes at 18fps, silent, two-screens, 1971-75
Shutter Interface 32.5 minutes, 2-screens or 4-screens, quadraphonic sound, 1975
(Installed at ArtPark as Pink Interface, 1976)
Analytical Studies I: The Film Frame 25 minutes, silent 1971-76
Analytical Studies II: Un-Framed Lines 30 minutes, silent 1971-76
Analytical Studies IV: Blank Color Frames 15 minutes, 1975-76
Dream Displacement 25 minutes, 2-screen or 4-screen, quadraphonic sound, 1976
Epileptic Seizure Comparison 34 minutes, 1976
Tails 3 minutes, 1976
Declarative Mode 38 minutes (at 24 fps, 50 minutes at 18 fps), for one or two screens, 1976-77
Tirgu Jiu, 10 minutes, 2-screens, silent
Episodic Generation 30 minutes, single screen or 4-screens, 1978
I Specchi infinite duration, three-screen slide projection, three sound tracks, 35mm film, 1979-1980
Sketches in Hawaii 9 minutes super-8, two-screens, silent, 1981
3rd Degree 24 minutes, 3-screen projection and single-screen projection, 1982
Bad Burns 5 minutes, 1982
Brancusi's Sculpture Ensemble at Tirgu Jiu 21 minutes, two screens, 1977-84
Figment I: Fluxglam Voyage in Search of the Real Maciunas 175 minutes, video, 1977-1986
Passare I (Italia) 30 minutes, silent, 1979-1986
Rapture 20 minutes, video, 1987
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