Rapture
Stills
About
"RAPTURE is a fierce vision of a Dionysian experience, a tightly controlled visual statement about the abandonment of self to heightened transportive states. It is also an exploration of the similarity between 'religious' and 'visionary' ecstasy and psychotic states." – CEPA (Buffalo) "There is another antecedent for this videotape contained in the remarkable paper print collection of films in the Library of Congress that includes a series of clinical documents of people afflicted with epilepsy filmed at the turn of the century. Those films present a paradox for the viewer: Observing events (seizures) where pain remains trapped mutely and invisibly within the confines of the body even as its shadow is projected as a measurable mass across the indexical grid of the cinematic recording device. I imagine RAPTURE as another look at the inarticulateness of pain – the inadequacies of the recording device for fixing the radical subjectivity of pain ... or ecstasy. In RAPTURE we are presented with a wounded and relentlessly objectified body demonstrating, with almost clinical control, the varieties of its own objectification." – Barbara Lattanzi Exhibition: CEPA Video Program, Buffalo; Kino Arsenal; Kino Eis Zeit; Infermental 7 (traveling exhibition of world video); Offensive Video Kunst, Dortmund, West Germany; London Film Festival; Int'l Audio Visual Experimental Festival, Arnhem, Holland; SF Cinematheque.
Films
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Wintercourse
Paul Sharits16mm, black and white, silent, 12 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Piece Mandala/End War
Paul Sharits16mm, color and b/w, sound, 5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Ray Gun Virus
Paul Sharits16mm, color, sound, 14 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Mandala Films
Paul Sharitscolor, sound, 53 minRental format: DVD PAL - Read MoreExperimental
Razor Blades
Paul Sharits16mm, color, sound, 25 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G
Paul Sharits16mm, color, sound, 12 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
N:O:T:H:I:N:G
Paul Sharits16mm, color, sound, 35 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED
Paul Sharits16mm, color, sound, 42 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Inferential Current
Paul Sharits16mm, color, sound, 8 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Axiomatic Granularity
Paul Sharits16mm, color, sound, 20 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Analytical Studies III Color Frame Passages
Paul Sharits16mm, color, silent, 22 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Color Sound Frames (Winding)
Paul Sharits16mm, color, sound, 22 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Apparent Motion
Paul Sharits16mm, color, silent, 28 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Shutter Interface
Paul Sharits16mm, color, sound, 24 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Analytical Studies I: The Film Frame
Paul Sharits16mm, color, silent, 25 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Analytical Studies II: Un-Frame-Lines
Paul Sharits16mm, color, silent, 30 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Analytical Studies IV: Blank Color Frames
Paul Sharits16mm, color, silent, 20 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Epileptic Seizure Comparison
Paul Sharits16mm, color, sound, 34 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Declarative Mode
Paul Sharits16mm, color, silent, 39 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Episodic Generation
Paul Sharits16mm, color, sound, 30 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
3rd Degree
Paul Sharits16mm, color, sound, 24 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Bad Burns
Paul Sharits16mm, color, silent, 6 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Brancusi's Sculpture Ensemble At Tirgu Jiu
Paul Sharits16mm, color, sound, 21 minRental format: 16mm