Christopher Sharits

Paul Sharits passed away in 1993 at the age of 50. He was a master of the flicker film, motion pictures that essentially consist of frames of pure colour presented in rapidly changing order. As the spectator sees these progressive, sometimes violent bursts of light, he or she will often – subjectively – apprehend complimentary colours, afterimages, and moving shape which are not in the films. Stuart Liebman writes that in Sharits’ films a new kind of space is created: “a dynamic, purely op…