filmgrafix
"with no definite future and no purpose other than to prevail somehow"
In Post Production
"PAUL SHARITS"
A feature length documentary about the artist and the man
This film is made with the generous participation and contribution of the following institutions and individuals:
Anthology Film Archives
Jonas Mekas, Andrew Lampert,
Robert Haller
Film-Makers' Coop New York
MM Serra
Whitney Museum of American Art
Chrissie Iles, Anita Duquette,
Patrick Walsh, Eliza Proctor, Matt Moon, Barbi Spieler
Millennium Film Workshop NY
Howard Guttenplan
Burchfield Penney Art Center
Don Metz, Tullis Johnson,
Scott Propeack, Edmund Cardoni
Hallwalls
Carolyn Tennant
Greene Naftali
Jay Sanders
Michael Snow
David Duprey
Christopher Sharits
Cheri Sharits
Chandler Romeo
Gerald O'Grady
Annette Michelson
Woody and Steina Vasulka
Tony Conrad
Bill Brand
Leslie Raymond
Jason Jay Stevens
Henry Jesionka
Alexis Pace
Robert David
Gene Youngblood
University of Colorado at Boulder
Heidi Carrell
Sylvie Roy
and many many others
This film is funded by:
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts
which last year invested $11.8 million in media arts throughout Canada.
Nous remercions de son soutien le Conseil des Arts du Canada,
qui a investi 11,8 millions de dollars l'an dernier dans les arts médiatiques à travers le Canada.
This film project is also funded by:
Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
La Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC)
Le crédit d'impot cinéma et télévision gestion SODEC
The National Film Board of Canada
CUPFA
MHSOC
Filmgrafix Productions
Paul Sharits Documentary
~ In post production as of March 2011~
~ Filmmaker Statement~My documentary film is a deep journey at the center of the life and the art of Paul Sharits, through study of his work, his process, through rare archival footage and home movies, all articulated by fascinating deeply moving exclusive interviews with people who shared his life, family, friends, students, archivists, film theorists and fellow filmmakers.
I have the privileged point of view to be an experimental filmmaker myself having created them for the last 25 years +. As I am making this film, I believe this enables me to relate and admire the very essence and fabric that made Paul Sharits such legendary filmmaker and ground breaking visual artist, one of the most singular, enigmatic, unique and important figure of the American Avant Garde. Plagued by unusual adversity, indomitable, he kept on, creating masterworks that are shown and exhibited all over the world.
This film aims to share the struggle of the artist and to bring him the much deserved additional recognition that belongs to him for a deeper human understanding of the experimental filmmaking process and some of the mental anguish often lodged within it.
This film will be of tremendous interest for anyone who has been touched by Art, whatever it may be, up close and faraway, whether they know it or not, whether they are tortured souls or not.
François' Biography