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From: Secret Cinema [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 24 February 2004 15:25
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Subject: [secretcinema] Paul Sharits, 29 February 2004
Tate Modern, Sunday 29 February 2004 at 3pm
PAUL SHARITS: SHORT FILMS
A key figure in American avant-garde cinema, Paul Sharits' early flicker
films and colour experiments established him as a key proponent of
structuralism, investigating both the properties of film and the boundaries
of physical perception.
RAY GUN VIRUS
Paul Sharits, USA 1966, 14 minutes
A film made entirely of colour fields that flicker at different rates and
rhythms. The effect is hallucinogenic to say the least. The frame appears to
be the unifying force that keeps the light of the projector from spilling
out all over the room, and each 24th of a second comes thrashing into the
viewer's consciousness.
N:O:T:H:I:N:G
Paul Sharits, USA 1968, 36 minutes
"In essence there are only three flicker films of importance, ARNULF RAINER,
THE FLICKER, and N:O:T:H:I:N:G. ... It is Sharits' N:O:T:H:I:N:G that opens
the field for the structural film with a flicker base." (P Adams Sitney)
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G
Paul Sharits, USA 1968, 12 minutes
Dedicated to and starring poet David Franks, whose voice also appears on the
soundtrack. Pure colour and a few still images alternate in a wide variety
of permutations. The spectator thus experiences the film as a constant and
often aggressive flickering, which varies rhythmically and operates at the
limits of perception. The coloured fields flatten the screen surface and
light tends to be felt concretely in the cinema space itself, with the
screen boundary pulsating and shifting with after-images.
PIECE MADALA / END WAR
Paul Sharits, USA 1966, 5 minutes
"Blank colour frequencies space out and optically feed into black and white
images of one lovemaking act which is seen simultaneously from both sides of
its space and both ends of its time." (Paul Sharits)
All prints courtesy LUX
screening at
Starr Auditorium
Tate Modern
Bankside
London
Admission £3.50 (£2 concessions)
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http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/paulsharits.htm
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