Phil Solomon Movies
- 2017
Ida Western Exile
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A would-be exile explores her Georgia O'Keeffe fantasies through customer support calls.
- 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...
- 1998
Floating under a Honey Tree
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Glimpses and sparkles of childhood memories.
- 1975
Nightlight
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Phil Solomon's fist attempt at a cine-nocturne.
- 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...
- 2023
The Summit
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The air swarms with hidden energies and engines, invisible broadcasts crackling ominously. History is written in midair, written on the wind, above...
- 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,...
- 1994
Bitemporal Vision: The Sea
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'Blinking' 2D rendition of one of Ken Jacobs' Nervous System performances first presented in 1994.
- 2014
Psalm IV: Valley of the Shadow
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Psalm IV: Valley of the Shadow, pairs moody landscape imagery culled from a video game with John Huston’s reading of James Joyce’s...
- 1996
Concrescence
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This is a hand-painted step-printed collaboration between Phil Solomon and Stan Brakhage.
- 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...
- 1992
Clepsydra
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Clepsydra is an ancient Greek water clock (literally, "to steal water"). This film envisions the strip of celluloid going vertically through a...
- 2013
Simply Because You're Near Me
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The many moods and shades of love, set in a virtual Hong Kong. Inspired by the films of Wong Kar Wai.
- 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...
- 2008
Empire
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A re-make of Andy Warhol’s Empire from high atop the Manhattan Island of Grand Theft Auto IV (“Liberty City”), far from the madding...
- 1989
The Exquisite Hour
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Half lullaby for the dead, half lamentation on the twilight of the cinema.
- 1995
The Snowman
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“A meditation on memory, burial and decay – a belated kaddish for my father.” (Phil Solomon)
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...