Phil Solomon Movies

The air swarms with hidden energies and engines, invisible broadcasts crackling ominously. History is written in midair, written on the wind, above...

A brief short of Phil Solomon and Stan Brakhage going to the movies in the spring of 2002.

Glimpses and sparkles of childhood memories.

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

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...

Believe it or not, esoteric film sages, i.e., Phil Solomon, are open to the possibilities of working with video — and even video games. This is...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

The many moods and shades of love, set in a virtual Hong Kong. Inspired by the films of Wong Kar Wai.

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...