Paul Sharits (1943-1993)

Filmography and list of films

Declarative Mode II(1977) 40 mins color silent 85.00 [and imageless pure color work,] is a since projector version of the two-projector piece is more visually kinetic but it lacks the subtle structures, the awareness of exact connections and variations which can be viewed in this single projector version. In short, it is more straight forward about its internal logic. This is a non-“structural” film, even while it contains much “flicker”. One cannot predict the scene by scene fabric; nor is there an overall unifying principle. The film attempts to be like life itself, full of unexpected twists and turns. It is an homage to Jefferson’s anti-slavery section of his Declaration of Independence (which was voted down by the first Congress) and it is my declaration of independence from the tyranny of preconception, of working from an overall structure of structural logic. This new chronicle form, or “abstract narrative”, prefigures a long work in progress—Passare—which will be like a book of temporal color with each chapter being about 30 minutes long.