Paul Sharits (1943-1993)

Leslie

This is a necessary introduction to Declarative Mode

($80.00 for 1 screen orders

$150.00 for 2 screen orders)

Declarative Mode   color, _ mins, silent at 24fps

$80.00 or $150.00

The work may be legitimately presented as either one need, a single screen version which is very contemplative and “narrative like”. Or it may be presented as a 2-projector piece         , with the inner image is 1 second in advance of the outer screen.

As a single screen work, we feel as is we are on some sort of journey, where we can never know/predict what is to “happen” next. It is engaging, like a novel full of surprises. In the 2-projector version it is extremely dynamic and it seems that the screen is “yelling” (declaring) at the viewer. In either case, the “narrative” feeling is like a soap opera, which just keeps twisting and turning, with no apparent resolution intended (but there is a closure on the purely formal level), as opposed to say Miami Vice wherein the dramatic line moves towards & achieves a weekly resolution. This work prefigures a long series of 30 min chapters in a “Light Novel,” PASSARE,