Phil Solomon Movies

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

"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.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

Part of "In Memoriam", a body of work comprising several videos, shot entirely within the virtual world of the Grand Theft Auto video game. Solomon...

Phil Solomon’s immersive triptych film installation American Falls, which was originally commissioned by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in...

Glimpses and sparkles of childhood memories.

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. ...

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

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...

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

The air swarms with hidden energies and engines, invisible broadcasts crackling ominously. History is written in midair, written on the wind, above...

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...