Paul Sharits - Ray Gun Virus (1966)

Ray Gun Virus (with sound!)
1966
According to artist, sound is to be turned to max volume.


Although affirming projector, projection beam, screen, emulsion, film frame structure, etc., this is not an "abstract film"/projector as pistol/time-colored pills/yes=no/mental suicide and then, rebirth as self-projection. "... just colors and strobe ... 'light-color energy patterns (analogies of neural transmission systems) generate internal color-time shape and allow the viewer to become aware of the electrical-chemical functionings of his own nervous system' ... It's true." - David Curtis, International Times "RAY GUN VIRUS is a work in which no images appear yet one can get pure identity on film. ... projected film itself makes the viewer aware of where he stands. RAY GUN VIRUS is not so-called 'Psychedelic Cinema' but even more and goes beyond it through Sharits' bright clarification of the media." - Takahiko Iimura, Film Art Exhibition: Fourth Int'l Experimental Film Competition, Knokke-Le-Zoute; "Twenty Years of American Personal Film" anthology, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1966. Collections: Museum of Modern Art, NY; Royal Archive of Belgium.

http://arttorrents.blogspot.com/2008/07/paul-sharits-ray-gun-virus-1966.html

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Paul
• Sharits
• Ray
• Gun
• Virus
• (1966)
• experimental

[bigblubafoon]

wow, what an ending!

[tehfrog]

I saw the whole thing at the moma. From beginning to end. It was amazing. I felt myself slip away while watching this and listen to the noise. it was great.

[Squishykitkat]

thank you so much for posting this. i saw this at the moma and it was one of the most interesting experiences of my life.

[BurntAtTheStake666]

i don't get it hahahah ???????

[theSTEEED]

this is the shittest thing i have ever fuckin seen, what a joke

its worst than cancer

[kub73158]

This is real good, yet the color spectrum here is too limited compared to the original!