Phil Solomon Filmes

  • 2002
    Innocence and Despair

    Innocence and Despair

    Innocence and Despair

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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...

    Innocence and Despair
  • 1994
    Bitemporal Vision: The Sea

    Bitemporal Vision: The Sea

    Bitemporal Vision: The Sea

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

    Bitemporal Vision: The Sea
  • 2007
    Rehearsals for Retirement

    Rehearsals for Retirement

    Rehearsals for Retirement

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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...

    Rehearsals for Retirement
  • 1994
    Alternating Currents

    Alternating Currents

    Alternating Currents

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

    Alternating Currents
  • 2008
    Empire

    Empire

    Empire

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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...

    Empire
  • 2018
    By This River

    By This River

    By This River

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

    By This River
  • 2009
    Still Raining, Still Dreaming

    Still Raining, Still Dreaming

    Still Raining, Still Dreaming

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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...

    Still Raining, Still Dreaming
  • 1996
    Concrescence

    Concrescence

    Concrescence

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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...

    Concrescence
  • 1989
    Remains to Be Seen

    Remains to Be Seen

    Remains to Be Seen

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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...

    Remains to Be Seen
  • 1970
    Five Films by Phil Solomon

    Five Films by Phil Solomon

    Five Films by Phil Solomon

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

    Five Films by Phil Solomon
  • 1999
    Psalm I: The Lateness of the Hour

    Psalm I: The Lateness of the Hour

    Psalm I: The Lateness of the Hour

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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...

    Psalm I: The Lateness of the Hour
  • 1989
    The Exquisite Hour

    The Exquisite Hour

    The Exquisite Hour

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

    The Exquisite Hour
  • 1983
    What’s Out Tonight Is Lost

    What’s Out Tonight Is Lost

    What’s Out Tonight Is Lost

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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...

    What’s Out Tonight Is Lost
  • 1999
    Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes

    Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes

    Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes

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

    Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes
  • 1988
    The Secret Garden

    The Secret Garden

    The Secret Garden

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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...

    The Secret Garden
  • 2013
    The Eternal Courtship

    The Eternal Courtship

    The Eternal Courtship

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    In celebration of his 80th birthday, here is: THE ETERNAL COURTSHIP (an ipad short) For Ken and Flo Jacobs, with love and affection from all of us...

    The Eternal Courtship
  • 2013
    Simply Because You're Near Me

    Simply Because You're Near Me

    Simply Because You're Near Me

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

    Simply Because You're Near Me
  • 2000
    Psalm II: Walking Distance

    Psalm II: Walking Distance

    Psalm II: Walking Distance

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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...

    Psalm II: Walking Distance
  • 2014
    Psalm IV: Valley of the Shadow

    Psalm IV: Valley of the Shadow

    Psalm IV: Valley of the Shadow

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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...

    Psalm IV: Valley of the Shadow
  • 1998
    Floating under a Honey Tree

    Floating under a Honey Tree

    Floating under a Honey Tree

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    Glimpses and sparkles of childhood memories.

    Floating under a Honey Tree