Phil Solomon

Known for DirectingBorn 1954-01-03Died 2019-04-20Manhattan, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes

What’s Out Tonight Is Lost

The Passage of the Bride

Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day

Nocturne

By This River

Psalm III: Night of the Meek

Alternating Currents

Psalm II: Walking Distance

Rehearsals for Retirement

Crossroad

Psalm I: The Lateness of the Hour

The Secret Garden

The Snowman

The Emblazoned Apparitions

Brakhage

Remains to Be Seen

Concrescence

Clepsydra

Sweetgrass

Sleep Has Her House

Seasons...

Last Days in a Lonely Place

Still Raining, Still Dreaming

Innocence and Despair

Cannibal! The Musical

The Exquisite Hour

Night Hunter

American Falls

Empire

Elementary Phrases

Psalm IV: Valley of the Shadow

Ida Western Exile

Turbulent Waters

The Summit

Simply Because You're Near Me

The Eternal Courtship

Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting

Floating under a Honey Tree

Bitemporal Vision: The Sea

Rocket Boy vs. Brakhage

As If We

Nightlight

The Sea Behind Her Head

Five Films by Phil Solomon