{"title":"Paul Sharits","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"pull-glue","title":"Pull\/Glue","description":"","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54047520883027,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/PullGlue.png?v=1781942026"},{"product_id":"open-the-door-an-incision","title":"Open the Door: An Incision","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBest known for his avant-garde filmmaking, Paul Sharits was a leading figure of the Structural Film movement, alongside artists such as Hollis Frampton, Tony Conrad, and Michael Snow. His work explored the material conditions of cinema itself. As Sharits declared:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"I wish to abandon imitation and illusion and enter directly into the higher drama of: celluloid, two-dimensional strips; individual rectangular frames; the nature of sprockets and emulsion; projector operations; the three-dimensional light beam; environmental illumination; the two-dimensional reflective screen surface; the retinal screen, optic nerve and individual psycho-physical subjectivities of consciousness.\" (Sharits in his statement \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efor the Fourth International Experimental Film Festival in Knokke-le-Zoute, 1967\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis accordion-folded publication translates Sharits's aesthetic and theoretical investigations into montage into book form. Here, the strip of film is replaced by blue crêpe paper that unfolds sequentially, evoking the temporal and spatial experience of projected film. The title and the book's physical structure explore ideas of cutting and interruption through folding and tearing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe striking electric blue may allude to Sharits's parallel investigations with colour as a structural element in cinema. In the same year, he published \"Red, Blue, Godard\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFilm Quarterly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, vol. 19, Summer 1966), one of his earliest essays devoted to the expressive and formal role of colour in the films of Jean-Luc Godard.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54063960719699,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/OpenTheDoor.png?v=1782132589"}],"url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/collections\/paul-sharits.oembed","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}