Paul Sharits (1943-1993)

Paul Sharits

Shutter Interface

16 mm. color and sound film piece screened on configuration 4 overlapping screens, 64” high and 24’ wide. A metaphorical exploration of the shutter mechanism.

Film footage of the Artpark site.

Hypothetical Shutter Interface D-2 17” x 21”

From a series of metaphoric drawings made after

and in relation to “Shutter Interface”

Suggesting the seemingly infinite variations

of a relatively limited system of parameters.

My primary involvement at Artpark was the i-

And sound film piece, “Shutter Interface.” Th-

Earlier and the scores for its footage and the s-

place prior to my residency. What was special-

that while I had conceived of the elements inv-

final arrangement of the elements—in their a-

other—would best express the central ideas-

allowed me to arrange the elements into a var-

study each one for a significant amount of tim-

meditation—I finally arrived at an optimal co-

The central idea was to create a metaphor of-

The cinema: the shutter. If one slows down a-

This flickering reveals the rotating shutter act-

Slowing down a projector, one can metaphori-

Structure of film (which is what necessitates a-

differentiating each frame of the film by radio-

metaphor was a guiding principle in my work-

flicker films.” I discovered, two years ago, tha-

by partially overlapping two screens-

 of related and the conception of four overlapping screen-

pieces, I prefer to use long film loops, each a-

that the relationships within the system go th-

seem to be beyond duration, to exist as on-go-

activity (I regard them as “locations”). For th-

carries about 6 minutes of material . The final-

was 64” high and 24” wide.

While installing and observing the various con-

I also shot footage of the impressive landscap-

Sketches resulted: one was a study of the flow-

Another was of rock stratification structures a-

The results were gratifying and may lead to w-

Hypothetical Shutter Interface H-3   17”x21”