Phil Solomon Movies

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

"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...

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

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

Glimpses and sparkles of childhood memories.

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

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

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

Part of Solomon’s acclaimed Grand Theft Auto series, titled “In Memoriam”, a body of work shot entirely within the virtual world of...

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

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...

The many moods and shades of love, set in a virtual Hong Kong. Inspired by the films of Wong Kar Wai.

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

A little nachtmusick, a deep blue overture to the series. Breathing in the cool night airs, breathing out a children's song; then whispering a prayer...

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. ...

Phil Solomon's unreleased GTA film. Made in Grand Theft Auto V.

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

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

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

Half lullaby for the dead, half lamentation on the twilight of the cinema.