Phil Solomon Movies

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

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...

Glimpses and sparkles of childhood memories.

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

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

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...

Solomon uses chemical and optical treatments to coat the film with a limpid membrane of swimming crystals, coagulating into silver recall, then...

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...

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

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

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

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

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. ...

“A meditation on memory, burial and decay – a belated kaddish for my father.” (Phil Solomon)

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

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

"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...

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

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.