Transforming anonymous found footage into powerful, expressive and painterly imagery, Engram of Returning (“engram,” also called “memory-trace”) is a film about memory and recollection. The film sets out to give form to a constellation of the introspective mirages left behind by the filmmaker, reconstructed through interwoven backward glances at the real, the imagined and the remembered.“The figure of the jig-saw / that is of picture, / the representation of a world as...
Short film , Experimental
CANADA | 19 minutes | 2015
An expanded documentary about the man, his life, his work and how he went on to change the course of art history. Pulsating colours, flash frames, scratches, burning film, rephotography and audio permutations: Paul Sharits is to film what the likes of Pollock and Rothko are to painting. After studying visual design at Denver University in the early 1960s, Sharits became fascinated by 16mm film and the 24 frames passing in front of a projector’s bulb. He wanted to explore the space that exists...
Feature film , Documentary
CANADA | 86 minutes | 2015
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