PIECE MANDALA / END WAR Paul Sharits, USA, 16mm, 4 min, 1966
Blank colour frequencies space out and optically feed-fuse into black and white images of one love-making gesture which is seen simultaneously from both sides of its space and both ends of its time. Dedicated to Frances Sharits. Restored by Anthology Film Archives.
Paul Sharits (1943–1993). 35+ films and media artworks from 1962–1987; pioneering figure of the American avantgarde film movement and the emergent disciplines of flicker film and multi-projection installation. Work in the permanent collections of institutions including Carnegie Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Centre Pompidou, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art.
