Phil Solomon Movies
- 1998
Floating under a Honey Tree
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Glimpses and sparkles of childhood memories.
- 1989
The Exquisite Hour
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Half lullaby for the dead, half lamentation on the twilight of the cinema.
- 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...
- 1994
Bitemporal Vision: The Sea
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'Blinking' 2D rendition of one of Ken Jacobs' Nervous System performances first presented in 1994.
- 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...
- 2013
The Emblazoned Apparitions
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An alchemically treated lullaby to the end of cinema, featuring Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
- 1988
The Secret Garden
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"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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1975
Nightlight
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Phil Solomon's fist attempt at a cine-nocturne.
- 2018
By This River
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Phil Solomon's unreleased GTA film. Made in Grand Theft Auto V.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...