Paul Sharits (1943-1993)

TIRGU JIU

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“…is a multiple-projector work which attempts to suggest the compositional dimensionality of music. Composed of two screening spaces, one inside of the other, the film is constructed in the form of a double sonata. The inner screen, which is dimmer and smaller than the outer, presents the same film in a preview mode which is nearly a second ahead of the outer screen. Each image, therefore, occurs first in the inner screen and then is enlarged and amplified onto the outer screen. The tonal complexity generated by this simple arrangement brings Declarative Mode nearly full circle back to the richly emotional character of Sharits’s early work”

- Bruce Jenkins