# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-sharits
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:37:25.613Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-sharits"
name: "Paul Sharits"
slug: "paul-sharits"
description: "Paul Jeffrey Sharits was a visual artist, best known for his work in experimental, or avant-garde filmmaking, particularly what became known as the structural film movement, along with other artists such as Tony Conrad, Hollis Frampton, and Michael Snow."
tagline: "American filmmaker (1943–1993)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/mlXPqhayQYvLv0sUQgOqXXiWS56.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1943-02-07"
deathDate: "1993-07-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.08
  momentum:             1.215686274509804
  historical:           6.810296
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788805/"
    handle:    "nm0788805"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.paulsharits.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/614059"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "پول شاريتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sharits"
    title: "Paul Sharits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sharits"
    title: "Paul Sharits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sharits"
    title: "Paul Sharits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sharits"
    title: "Paul Sharits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%86%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB"
    title: "Шариц, Пол"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1458701"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1082911"
    title: "Paul Sharits"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump