Phil Solomon Movies

"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...

Contents: Nocturne (1980) Remains to be seen (1994) The exquisite hour (1994) The snowman (1995) Psalm II : walking distance

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...

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...

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

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

Glimpses and sparkles of childhood memories.

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...

Nocturne evokes one of the most magnificent films of Brakhage: Fire of Waters. It takes place in a suburb populated by children playing and...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The second feature-length film directed by Scott Barley.

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

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...

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