Phil Solomon Movies

An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's...

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...

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

BRAKHAGE explores the depth and breadth of the filmmaker’s genius, the exquisite splendor of his films, his magic personal charm, his aesthetic...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 second feature-length film directed by Scott Barley.

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...

Nocturne evokes one of the most magnificent films of Brakhage: Fire of Waters. It takes place in a suburb populated by children playing and...

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

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. ...

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

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

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