Phil Solomon Movies

Clepsydra is an ancient Greek water clock (literally, "to steal water"). This film envisions the strip of celluloid going vertically through a...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

Glimpses and sparkles of childhood memories.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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. ...

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