Paul Sharits / Hans Richter / Ron Rice June 23, 2007

Ron Rice

CHUMLUM
1964, 23 minutes, 16mm. With Jack Smith, Mario Montez, Gerard Malanga.

"One of the underground's best and most influential films." –Peter Gidal

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Hans Richter

RHYTHMUS 21
1921, 3 minutes.

"Its content is essentially rhythm, the formal vocabulary is elemental geometry, and the structural principle is counterpoint of contrasting opposites." –Standish Lawder

ZWEIGROSCHENZAUBER / TWO PENNY MAGIC (1929, 2 minutes)

ALLES DREHT SICH, ALLES BEWEGT SICH / EVERYTHING REVOLVES, EVERYTHING TURNS (1929, 9 minutes)

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Paul Sharits

N:O:T:H:I:N:G
1968, 36 minutes. Newly preserved print! Preservation supported by the National Film Preservation Foundation.

Based in part on the Tibetan Mandala of the Five Dhyani Buddhas/a journey toward the center of pure consciousness (Dharma-Dhatu Wisdom)/space and motion generated rather than illustrated/time-color.

"In essence there are only three flicker films of importance, ARNULF RAINER, THE FLICKER, and N:O:T:H:I:N:G… In terms of the subject we have discussed here, it is Sharits' N:O:T:H:I:N:G that opens the field for the structural film with a flicker base." –P. Adams Sitney

T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G
1969, 12 minutes. Newly preserved print!

Starring poet David Franks whose voice appears on soundtrack/an uncutting and unscratching mandala.

"Merges violence with purity." –P. Adams Sitney

"Surrealist tour de force." –Parker Tyler