Phil Solomon
Born: 1954-01-03 in Manhattan, New York, USA
Died: 2019-04-20
Known For: Directing
Biography
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
2023
- The Summit ... (Director)
2018
- By This River ... (Director)
2017
- Sleep Has Her House ... (Thanks)
- Ida Western Exile ... (Thanks)
2014
- Psalm IV: Valley of the Shadow ... (Director)
2013
- Simply Because You're Near Me ... (Director)
- The Emblazoned Apparitions ... (Director)
- The Eternal Courtship ... (Director)
2011
- Night Hunter ... (Editor)
- Turbulent Waters ... (Cinematography)
2010
- American Falls ... (Director)
2009
- Sweetgrass ... (Thanks)
- Still Raining, Still Dreaming ... (Director)
2008
- Empire ... (Director)
2007
- Rehearsals for Retirement ... (Director)
- Last Days in a Lonely Place ... (Director)
2005
- Crossroad ... (Director)
2002
- Seasons... ... (Director)
- Psalm III: Night of the Meek ... (Director)
- Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day as Himself
- Innocence and Despair ... (Director)
- Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting ... (Director)
2000
- Psalm II: Walking Distance ... (Director)
1999
- Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes ... (Director)
- Psalm I: The Lateness of the Hour ... (Director)
1998
- Floating under a Honey Tree ... (Sound Designer)
- Brakhage as Self
1996
- Cannibal! The Musical as Miner (uncredited)
- Concrescence ... (Director)
1995
- The Snowman ... (Director)
1994
- Elementary Phrases ... (Director)
- Bitemporal Vision: The Sea ... (Cinematography)
- Alternating Currents ... (Director)
1992
- Clepsydra ... (Director)
1989
- Remains to Be Seen ... (Director)
- The Exquisite Hour ... (Director)
- Rocket Boy vs. Brakhage ... (Director)
1988
- The Secret Garden ... (Director)
1983
- What’s Out Tonight Is Lost ... (Director)
1980
- Nocturne ... (Director)
- The Passage of the Bride ... (Director)
- As If We ... (Director)
1975
- Nightlight ... (Director)