Branden W. Joseph is the Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and director of Art Humanities at Columbia University, where he specializes in postwar American and European art.

Towards the end of his career, Sharits turned to visceral icons of pathology and decay. The disintegration of the body and the decomposition of the filmic material became corollary metaphors in disturbing-and at times extraordinarily beautiful-assaults on the viewer's consciousness. 

Epileptic Seizure Comparison 1976, 17 mins, Color, 16mm two-screen projection, From Anthology Film Archives, Canyon Cinema.

Apparent Motion 1975, 30 mins, Color, 16mm, From Film-makers' Co-op.

3rd Degree 1982, 24 mins, Color, 16mm, From Film-makers' Co-op.