Phil Solomon Movies

In celebration of his 80th birthday, here is: THE ETERNAL COURTSHIP (an ipad short) For Ken and Flo Jacobs, with love and affection from all of us...

An experiment in 3D abetted by a Pulfrich filter, originally theorized in the 1920s. Features water cinematography by Phil Solomon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

The film combines, through a variety of optical printing techniques, documentary archival footage, images from the The Golem (1920), and...

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

In this handmade film, composed of more than four thousand collages, the actress Lillian Gish is seamlessly appropriated from silent-era cinema and...

Glimpses and sparkles of childhood memories.

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

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. ...

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