Phil Solomon Movies

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

Experimental, paint on celluloid

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

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 is a hand-painted step-printed collaboration between Phil Solomon and Stan Brakhage.

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

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

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

"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's fist attempt at a cine-nocturne.

This was an unfinished collaboration with Stan Brakhage. This film was actually screened publicly at least a few times, including at Pacific Film...

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

Glimpses and sparkles of childhood memories.

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

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

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...

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

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...

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