Phil Solomon Filmes

  • 2017
    Sleep Has Her House

    Sleep Has Her House

    Sleep Has Her House

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    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...

    Sleep Has Her House
  • 2009
    Sweetgrass

    Sweetgrass

    Sweetgrass

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

    Sweetgrass
  • 1998
    Brakhage

    Brakhage

    Brakhage

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

    Brakhage
  • 2007
    Last Days in a Lonely Place

    Last Days in a Lonely Place

    Last Days in a Lonely Place

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

    Last Days in a Lonely Place
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1989
    Remains to Be Seen

    Remains to Be Seen

    Remains to Be Seen

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

    Remains to Be Seen
  • 2017
    Ida Western Exile

    Ida Western Exile

    Ida Western Exile

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

    Ida Western Exile
  • 1988
    The Secret Garden

    The Secret Garden

    The Secret Garden

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    "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...

    The Secret Garden
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1970
    The Sea Behind Her Head

    The Sea Behind Her Head

    The Sea Behind Her Head

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    The second feature-length film directed by Scott Barley.

    The Sea Behind Her Head
  • 2007
    Rehearsals for Retirement

    Rehearsals for Retirement

    Rehearsals for Retirement

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    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...

    Rehearsals for Retirement
  • 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
  • 1975
    Nightlight

    Nightlight

    Nightlight

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

    Nightlight
  • 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
    Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting

    Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting

    Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting

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    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...

    Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting
  • 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