Phil Solomon Movies

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

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

The second feature-length film directed by Scott Barley.

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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. ...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

"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...