The interaction and conflict between text and image, seeing and hearing is foremost in Sharits's early films, which make provocative reference to sexuality, violence, and self-destruction amidst striking formal experimentation with dueling visual and audio tracks. Sound and image blur and layer into indistinguishable flows of color and sense. 

Word Movie/Flux Film 1966, 4 mins, Color, 16mm, From Canyon Cinema.

Razor Blades 1965–68, 25 mins, Color, 16mm two-screen projection, From Anthology Film Archives.

T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G 1968, 12 mins, Color, 16mm, From Anthology Film Archives.

Inferential Current 1971, 8 mins, Color, 16mm, From Anthology Film Archives.