Paul Sharits
Mandala Films
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Original format 16mm
Year 1966-1969
Artist(s) Paul Sharits
Author(s) Pip Chodorov, Vincent Deville
Booklet 28 pages (French, English)
Running time 53 min
Films
PIECE MANDALA / END WAR (1966) 5'
N:O:T:H:I:N:G (1968) 36'
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (1968) 12'
Description
"The screen, irradiated by Paul Sharits's N:O:T:H:I:N:G, seems to take on a spherical shape at times—due, I think, to the magnificent quality of light achieved through his flashing frames, a baroque pearl one might say—marvelous! One of the most beautiful films I have ever seen."
— Stan Brakhage
"The film takes you into a colorful world, it heightens your sense of colors, enriches it. You become attentive to the shifts in tonalities that surround your everyday reality. Your vision has changed. You begin to see the light on the objects around you. The range of your experiences has expanded. You now have a new understanding. You emerge from it humanly enriched."
— Jonas Mekas
In the mid-1960s, Paul Sharits developed an abstract cinema that broke with pictorial tradition. His entire body of work constitutes a reflection on the very nature of cinema and its components: film stock, the photogram, the movement of frames, perforations, the screen, projection. Primarily using the flicker technique (the flashing of patterns and colors), he highlights the discontinuity of photograms, revealing the unsuspected powers of editing.
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