Phil Solomon
Directing
1954-01-03 · Manhattan, New York, USA
Phil Solomon was an internationally recognized filmmaker and educator who taught both film history/aesthetics and film production at University of Colorado Boulder from 1991 until his death in 2019. Solomon’s work has been screened in every major venue for experimental film throughout the U.S. and Europe, including 3 Cineprobes (one-man shows) at the Museum of Modern Art and two Whitney Biennials. His films have won 10 first prize awards at major international film festivals for experimental film (including six Juror’s Awards from the Black Maria Film and Video Festival). His films reside in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Massachusetts College of Art, Binghamton University, Hampshire College, The Chicago Art Institute, San Francisco State University, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and the Oberhausen Film Collection. Solomon collaborated on three films with his colleague and friend, Stan Brakhage, who named Solomon’s Remains to be Seen on his Top Ten Films of All Time for Sight and Sound.
Filmography
The Summit
2023 · Movie
By This River
2018 · Movie
Ida Western Exile
2017 · Movie
Sleep Has Her House
2017 · Movie
Psalm IV: Valley of the Shadow
2014 · Movie
The Emblazoned Apparitions
2013 · Movie
Simply Because You're Near Me
2013 · Movie
The Eternal Courtship
2013 · Movie
Turbulent Waters
2011 · Movie
Night Hunter
2011 · Movie
American Falls
2010 · Movie
Sweetgrass
2009 · Movie
Still Raining, Still Dreaming
2009 · Movie
Empire
2008 · Movie
Rehearsals for Retirement
2007 · Movie
Last Days in a Lonely Place
2007 · Movie
Crossroad
2005 · Movie
Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting
2002 · Movie
Psalm III: Night of the Meek
2002 · Movie
Seasons...
2002 · Movie
Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day
2002 · Movie
Innocence and Despair
2002 · Movie
Psalm II: Walking Distance
2000 · Movie
Psalm I: The Lateness of the Hour
1999 · Movie
Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes
1999 · Movie
Brakhage
1998 · Movie
Floating under a Honey Tree
1998 · Movie
Cannibal! The Musical
1996 · Movie
Concrescence
1996 · Movie
The Snowman
1995 · Movie
Bitemporal Vision: The Sea
1994 · Movie
Elementary Phrases
1994 · Movie
Alternating Currents
1994 · Movie
Clepsydra
1992 · Movie
Rocket Boy vs. Brakhage
1989 · Movie
Remains to Be Seen
1989 · Movie
The Exquisite Hour
1989 · Movie
The Secret Garden
1988 · Movie
What’s Out Tonight Is Lost
1983 · Movie
As If We
1980 · Movie
The Passage of the Bride
1980 · Movie
Nocturne
1980 · Movie
Nightlight
1975 · Movie
The Sea Behind Her Head
Movie
Five Films by Phil Solomon
Movie