Phil Solomon Movies
- 2002
Innocence and Despair
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"One week after 9/11, independent filmmakers Jay Rosenblatt and Caveh Zahedi put out a call to over 150 experimental and documentary filmmakers...
- 2011
Turbulent Waters
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An experiment in 3D abetted by a Pulfrich filter, originally theorized in the 1920s. Features water cinematography by Phil Solomon.
- 1994
Bitemporal Vision: The Sea
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'Blinking' 2D rendition of one of Ken Jacobs' Nervous System performances first presented in 1994.
- 1980
As If We
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Musing on the past and the present, on roads not taken and the road I was already on. For Jeanine Hayden and her son Jeff, wherever you are. ...
- 1999
Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes
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A film Solomon made for his wife on the occasion of their marriage.
- 1980
Nocturne
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Nocturne evokes one of the most magnificent films of Brakhage: Fire of Waters. It takes place in a suburb populated by children playing and...
- 1999
Psalm I: The Lateness of the Hour
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A little nachtmusick, a deep blue overture to the series. Breathing in the cool night airs, breathing out a children's song; then whispering a prayer...
- 2007
Rehearsals for Retirement
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Part of "In Memoriam", a body of work comprising several videos, shot entirely within the virtual world of the Grand Theft Auto video game. Solomon...
- 1989
The Exquisite Hour
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Half lullaby for the dead, half lamentation on the twilight of the cinema.
- 2010
American Falls
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Phil Solomon’s immersive triptych film installation American Falls, which was originally commissioned by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in...
- 2011
Night Hunter
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In this handmade film, composed of more than four thousand collages, the actress Lillian Gish is seamlessly appropriated from silent-era cinema and...
- 2002
Psalm III: Night of the Meek
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The film combines, through a variety of optical printing techniques, documentary archival footage, images from the The Golem (1920), and...
- 1994
Elementary Phrases
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Colleagues at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the two began with strips of film Brakhage had painted on by hand, photographing them frame by...
- 1970
Five Films by Phil Solomon
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Contents: Nocturne (1980) Remains to be seen (1994) The exquisite hour (1994) The snowman (1995) Psalm II : walking distance
- 2006
Untitled (for David Gatten)
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Phil Solomon: 'Mark and I made this for our friend David Gatten, as a prayer, an offering, a get well soon card... for all three of us. It was made...
- 1989
Rocket Boy vs. Brakhage
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Okay, well, this film started out as a punk Joke, made 10 minutes before class, in 8mm, shot Brakhage, camera jammed, used accident to shoot him down...
- 1980
The Passage of the Bride
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"Solomon's work - some of the best of contemporary experimental film - is difficult. Its optical and moral density eludes language, as if the films,...
- 1998
Floating under a Honey Tree
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Glimpses and sparkles of childhood memories.
- 1983
What’s Out Tonight Is Lost
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Adopting its title from a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, What’s Out Tonight Is Lost is an elegiac film sifting through the unrecoverable. The...
- 2009
Still Raining, Still Dreaming
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Believe it or not, esoteric film sages, i.e., Phil Solomon, are open to the possibilities of working with video — and even video games. This is...