Phil Solomon Movies

Imagine a rusted, medieval film can having survived centuries, a long lost D. W. Griffith / Georges Méliès co-production, a film left...

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...

Psalm IV: Valley of the Shadow, pairs moody landscape imagery culled from a video game with John Huston’s reading of James Joyce’s...

The second feature-length film directed by Scott Barley.

"Solomon's work - some of the best of contemporary experimental film - is difficult. Its optical and moral density eludes language, as if the films,...

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...

Brakhage's frame-by-frame hand carvings and etchings directly into the film emulsion, sometimes photographically combined with paint, are illuminated...

"concrescence, principle of As a term from A.N. Whitehead's metaphysics refers to the drive things possess that impel them to actualization, the...

Solomon uses chemical and optical treatments to coat the film with a limpid membrane of swimming crystals, coagulating into silver recall, then...

The virtual landscapes of a video game are transformed into an existential tale of solemn beauty.

"No filmmaker of the 1980s knew as much as Phil Solomon of affirming the importance of multiple layers in the visual production of images. Solomon...

This afternoon summer scene is very much how he worked (when painting directly on film) in the last several years – at various cafes and sports...

A brief short of Phil Solomon and Stan Brakhage going to the movies in the spring of 2002.

A film Solomon made for his wife on the occasion of their marriage.

An alchemically treated lullaby to the end of cinema, featuring Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

A would-be exile explores her Georgia O'Keeffe fantasies through customer support calls.

This was an unfinished collaboration with Stan Brakhage. This film was actually screened publicly at least a few times, including at Pacific Film...

"One week after 9/11, independent filmmakers Jay Rosenblatt and Caveh Zahedi put out a call to over 150 experimental and documentary filmmakers...

'Blinking' 2D rendition of one of Ken Jacobs' Nervous System performances first presented in 1994.

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. ...