Phil Solomon Movies

  • 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
  • 1975
    Nightlight

    Nightlight

    Nightlight

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

    Nightlight
  • 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
  • 2018
    By This River

    By This River

    By This River

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

    By This River
  • 2014
    Psalm IV: Valley of the Shadow

    Psalm IV: Valley of the Shadow

    Psalm IV: Valley of the Shadow

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

    Psalm IV: Valley of the Shadow
  • 2006
    Untitled (for David Gatten)

    Untitled (for David Gatten)

    Untitled (for David Gatten)

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    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...

    Untitled (for David Gatten)
  • 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
  • 1994
    Alternating Currents

    Alternating Currents

    Alternating Currents

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

    Alternating Currents
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1998
    Floating under a Honey Tree

    Floating under a Honey Tree

    Floating under a Honey Tree

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    Glimpses and sparkles of childhood memories.

    Floating under a Honey Tree
  • 1989
    The Exquisite Hour

    The Exquisite Hour

    The Exquisite Hour

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

    The Exquisite Hour
  • 1994
    Bitemporal Vision: The Sea

    Bitemporal Vision: The Sea

    Bitemporal Vision: The Sea

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

    Bitemporal Vision: The Sea
  • 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
  • 2013
    The Emblazoned Apparitions

    The Emblazoned Apparitions

    The Emblazoned Apparitions

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

    The Emblazoned Apparitions
  • 1999
    Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes

    Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes

    Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes

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

    Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes
  • 2011
    Turbulent Waters

    Turbulent Waters

    Turbulent Waters

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

    Turbulent Waters
  • 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
  • 1989
    Rocket Boy vs. Brakhage

    Rocket Boy vs. Brakhage

    Rocket Boy vs. Brakhage

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    Okay, well, this film started out as a punk Joke, made 10 minutes before class, in 8mm, shot Brakhage, camera jammed, used accident to shoot him down...

    Rocket Boy vs. Brakhage
  • 2002
    Innocence and Despair

    Innocence and Despair

    Innocence and Despair

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

    Innocence and Despair