Paul Sharits (1943-1993)

Study 4: Shutter Interface 17”x21”

(optimal arrangement).

Double signification of the absence of light

as a prime function of “Shutter Interface”,

17”x21”.

Theoretical illustration of the relation of

the rotation of a film projector’s shutter

blade and the structure of the footage from

which “Shutter Interface” is composed.

(Black film frames, which separate each

short set of colored frames, are metaphors

of a shutter in its closed position.)

Top: Frame Study 7: “Pink Interface C,” score

for footage for screen C of Shutter

Interface.”

Bottom: study of how footage generated by

the above score would look as “Frozen Film

Frame.” (Vertical strips of the film hanging

 side-by-side, serially arranged from left

to right, sandwiched between sheets of

clear plexiglas.)