Phil Solomon (M.F.A. Massachusetts College of Art) was an internationally recognized filmmaker and has been teaching both film history/aesthetics and film production at CU since 1991. Professor Solomon’s work has been screened in every major venue for experimental film throughout the U.S. and Europe, including 3 Cineprobes (one-man shows) at the Museum of Modern Art and two Whitney Biennials. Professor Solomon’s films have won 10 first prize awards at major international film festivals for experimental film (including six Juror’s Awards from the Black Maria Film and Video Festival). His films reside in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Massachusetts College of Art, Binghamton University, Hampshire College, The Chicago Art Institute, San Francisco State University, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and the Oberhausen Film Collection. Professor Solomon collaborated on three films with his colleague and friend, Stan Brakhage, who named Solomon’s Remains to be Seen on his Top Ten Films of All Time for Sight and Sound.
The air swarms with hidden energies and engines, invisible broadcasts crackling ominously. History is written in midair, written on the wind, above the clouds or at Ceiling Zero. Secretly. A lethal murmur out of earshot. Scribbled in code. Voices drowned b ...
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A would-be exile explores her Georgia O'Keeffe fantasies through customer support calls. ...
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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 the forest. They cry out into the black, as the shadows pass away, into the ground. ...
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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 "The Dead". ...
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An alchemically treated lullaby to the end of cinema, featuring Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. ...
Watch NowThe many moods and shades of love, set in a virtual Hong Kong. Inspired by the films of Wong Kar Wai. ...
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An experiment in 3D abetted by a Pulfrich filter, originally theorized in the 1920s. Features water cinematography by Phil Solomon. ...
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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 plunged into a new and haunting role. NIGHT HUNTER evokes a disquieting dreamscape, drawn from allegory, myt ...
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Phil Solomon's immersive triptych film installation American Falls, which was originally commissioned by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., transforms the Museum's 4,000-sq. ft. third floor gallery into a panoramic and artistic journey through ...
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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 breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture, revealing a world in which nature ...
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Part of Solomon's acclaimed Grand Theft Auto series, titled "In Memoriam", a body of work shot entirely within the virtual world of the Grand Theft Auto video game. ...
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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 crowd of thieves, cops, prostitutes and murderers down below. I hijacked a copter, leaped onto the rooftop of an adjacent bu ...
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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 transformed Liberty City, the ersatz metropolis based on New York City in which the game is set, into a refl ...
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The virtual landscapes of a video game are transformed into an existential tale of solemn beauty. ...
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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, which they made as a get-well offering for a mutual friend [David Gatten]. ...
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The film combines, through a variety of optical printing techniques, documentary archival footage, images from the The Golem (1920), and Solomon's cinematography to evoke the legendary tale of Rabbi Löw's monster in order to save the Jewish population of ...
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Brakhage's frame-by-frame hand carvings and etchings directly into the film emulsion, sometimes photographically combined with paint, are illuminated by Solomon's optical printing; this footage was then edited by Solomon into a four part 'seasonal cycle'. ...
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A brief short of Phil Solomon and Stan Brakhage going to the movies in the spring of 2002. ...
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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 asking for contributions to a collective film project (Underground Zero) addressing those tragic events and thei ...
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Imagine a rusted, medieval film can having survived centuries, a long lost D. W. Griffith / Georges Méliès co-production, a film left to us from the Bronze Age, a time when images were smelted and boiled rather than merely taken, when they poured down li ...
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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 for a night of easeful sleep. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012. ...
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A film Solomon made for his wife on the occasion of their marriage. ...
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"concrescence, principle of As a term from A.N. Whitehead's metaphysics refers to the drive things possess that impel them to actualization, the creative urge towards concrescence, for producing novel advances through the generation of greater interrelated ...
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'Blinking' 2D rendition of one of Ken Jacobs' Nervous System performances first presented in 1994. ...
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Colleagues at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the two began with strips of film Brakhage had painted on by hand, photographing them frame by frame with Solomon's optical printer. They often printed two strips of film together, some of them containin ...
Watch NowThis was an unfinished collaboration with Stan Brakhage. This film was actually screened publicly at least a few times, including at Pacific Film Archive (11/15/1994, described as a premiere), MoMA (5/3/1999, also described as a premiere – probably a rev ...
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Clepsydra is an ancient Greek water clock (literally, "to steal water"). This film envisions the strip of celluloid going vertically through a projector as a sprocketed waterfall (random events measured in discreet units of time), through which the silent ...
Watch NowOkay, 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 again, in order to move on, you know what I mean? But now... the whole thing is gettin' out of hand. I kee ...
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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 dissolving. ...
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Half lullaby for the dead, half lamentation on the twilight of the cinema. ...
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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 perpetuates the Brakhagian tradition of creating a succession of images whose logic comes from a large number ...
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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 film is a reflecting pool where vision breaks up. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010. ...
Watch NowMusing 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. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012. ...
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"Solomon's work - some of the best of contemporary experimental film - is difficult. Its optical and moral density eludes language, as if the films, which are often dark and cracked, were a palimpsest of obscured meaning. His PASSAGE OF THE BRIDE is dedica ...
Watch NowA brief short of Phil Solomon and Stan Brakhage going to the movies in the spring of 2002. ...
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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 fellow travelers, and the influence his work has had on generations of other creators. While touching on signifi ...
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Heading through Colorado Territory in search of gold and women, Alferd Packer and his group of bemused companions find themselves lost, starving and musically inspired by the obstacles they confront along the way, including a die-hard Confederate cyclops, ...
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