Movies

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...

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

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

The second feature-length film directed by Scott Barley.

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...

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

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

This afternoon summer scene is very much how he worked (when painting directly on film) in the last several years – at various cafes and sports...

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...

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

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

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

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

A brief short of Phil Solomon and Stan Brakhage going to the movies in the spring of 2002.

BRAKHAGE explores the depth and breadth of the filmmaker’s genius, the exquisite splendor of his films, his magic personal charm, his aesthetic...

"concrescence, principle of As a term from A.N. Whitehead's metaphysics refers to the drive things possess that impel them to actualization, the...

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

Imagine a rusted, medieval film can having survived centuries, a long lost D. W. Griffith / Georges Méliès co-production, a film left...

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

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