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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Flux wall poem
- Paul Sharits
- Paul Sharits
- Buffalo heads
- Mediums of language
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Film & TV
Denver, Colorado, USA
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 when projected on the screen. Fans hail the effects hallucinogenic, while his detractors find them garish. Sharits is also known for establishing experimental film groups at prominent universities,…
Known for
- Paul Sharits — Himself2015
- Funtime at the Vasulkas2006
- Birth of a Nation — Self1997
- Rapture1987
- Home Movies 1971-811985
- Cinématon XIII — N°1201981
- Cinématon n°120 : Paul Sharits1981
- Cinématon — N°1201978
- On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed? — Liveraccio1977
- Paul Sharits Interview with Gerard O'Grady — himself1976
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 142
- Total plays
- 505
Tags
fluxusamerican
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Paul
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Denver
- Place of death
- Buffalo
- Educated at
- University of Denver
- Employer
- Antioch College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- Documenta 5
- Official website
- www.paulsharits.com
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- date of birth
- 1943-02-08
- date of death
- 1993-07-15
- medical condition
- bipolar disorder
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- has works in the collection
- Buffalo AKG Art Museum
- Commons category
- Paul Sharits
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