Phil Solomon Movies

  • 2008
    Empire

    Empire

    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...

    Empire
  • 1996
    Cannibal! The Musical

    Cannibal! The Musical

    Cannibal! The Musical

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    Heading through Colorado Territory in search of gold and women, Alferd Packer and his group of bemused companions find themselves lost, starving and...

    Cannibal! The Musical
  • 2011
    Night Hunter

    Night Hunter

    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...

    Night Hunter
  • 2017
    Sleep Has Her House

    Sleep Has Her House

    Sleep Has Her House

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    The shadows of screams climb beyond the hills. It has happened before. But this will be the last time. The last few sense it, withdrawing deep into...

    Sleep Has Her House
  • 2023
    The Summit

    The Summit

    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...

    The Summit
  • 2005
    Crossroad

    Crossroad

    Crossroad

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    In 2005, Phil Solomon collaborated with his best friend, the highly respected filmmaker Mark LaPore, on a short digital video entitled Crossroad,...

    Crossroad
  • 1995
    The Snowman

    The Snowman

    The Snowman

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    “A meditation on memory, burial and decay – a belated kaddish for my father.” (Phil Solomon)

    The Snowman
  • 2010
    American Falls

    American Falls

    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...

    American Falls
  • 1992
    Clepsydra

    Clepsydra

    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...

    Clepsydra
  • 1980
    Nocturne

    Nocturne

    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...

    Nocturne
  • 2002
    Seasons...

    Seasons...

    Seasons...

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

    Seasons...
  • 2009
    Sweetgrass

    Sweetgrass

    Sweetgrass

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    An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's...

    Sweetgrass
  • 1994
    Elementary Phrases

    Elementary Phrases

    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...

    Elementary Phrases
  • 1975
    Nightlight

    Nightlight

    Nightlight

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    Phil Solomon's fist attempt at a cine-nocturne.

    Nightlight
  • 1970
    The Sea Behind Her Head

    The Sea Behind Her Head

    The Sea Behind Her Head

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    The second feature-length film directed by Scott Barley.

    The Sea Behind Her Head
  • 2013
    Simply Because You're Near Me

    Simply Because You're Near Me

    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.

    Simply Because You're Near Me
  • 1988
    The Secret Garden

    The Secret Garden

    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...

    The Secret Garden
  • 1980
    The Passage of the Bride

    The Passage of the Bride

    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,...

    The Passage of the Bride
  • 1983
    What’s Out Tonight Is Lost

    What’s Out Tonight Is Lost

    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...

    What’s Out Tonight Is Lost
  • 1998
    Brakhage

    Brakhage

    Brakhage

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    BRAKHAGE explores the depth and breadth of the filmmaker’s genius, the exquisite splendor of his films, his magic personal charm, his aesthetic...

    Brakhage