Phil Solomon Movies
- 2009

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...
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- 1970

The Sea Behind Her Head
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The second feature-length film directed by Scott Barley.
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- 1999

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...
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- 1980

The Passage of the Bride
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"Solomon's work - some of the best of contemporary experimental film - is difficult. Its optical and moral density eludes language, as if the films,...
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- 2014

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...
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- 1980

As If We
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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. ...
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- 1988

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...
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- 2005

Crossroad
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In 2005, Phil Solomon collaborated with his best friend, the highly respected filmmaker Mark LaPore, on a short digital video entitled Crossroad,...
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- 2013

The Emblazoned Apparitions
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An alchemically treated lullaby to the end of cinema, featuring Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
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- 1989

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...
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- 2018

By This River
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Phil Solomon's unreleased GTA film. Made in Grand Theft Auto V.
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- 2008

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...
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- 1989

The Exquisite Hour
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Half lullaby for the dead, half lamentation on the twilight of the cinema.
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- 2013

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.
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- 2002

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...
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- 1970

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
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- 2007

Last Days in a Lonely Place
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The virtual landscapes of a video game are transformed into an existential tale of solemn beauty.
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- 2010

American Falls
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Phil Solomon’s immersive triptych film installation American Falls, which was originally commissioned by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in...
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- 1989

Rocket Boy vs. Brakhage
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Okay, well, this film started out as a punk Joke, made 10 minutes before class, in 8mm, shot Brakhage, camera jammed, used accident to shoot him down...
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- 2000

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...
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