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Trained as a graphic artist and a painter, Paul Sharits became an avant-garde filmmaker noted for manipulating the film stock itself to create a variety of fascinating, abstract light and colorplays ...

Sound Strip / Film Strip is Paul Sharits' first "Locational" work, made in collaboration with Bill Brand. The piece was commissioned for the 1972 opening exhibition of the Contemporary Arts Museum, ...

America’s most beloved minimalist composer will accompany the (silent) work of maverick filmmaker Harry Smith, and Elliott Sharp will create a live score for Paul Sharits’s 1966 Ray Gun Virus on his ...