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
- The Emblazoned Apparitions ... (Director)
- Simply Because You're Near Me ... (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
- Last Days in a Lonely Place ... (Director)
- Rehearsals for Retirement ... (Director)
2005
- Crossroad ... (Director)
2002
- Seasons... ... (Director)
- Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting ... (Director)
- Innocence and Despair ... (Director)
- Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day as Himself
- Psalm III: Night of the Meek ... (Director)
2000
- Psalm II: Walking Distance ... (Director)
1999
- Psalm I: The Lateness of the Hour ... (Director)
- Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes ... (Director)
1998
- Brakhage as Self
- Floating under a Honey Tree ... (Sound Designer)
1996
- Cannibal! The Musical as Miner (uncredited)
- Concrescence ... (Director)
1995
- The Snowman ... (Director)
1994
- Alternating Currents ... (Director)
- Bitemporal Vision: The Sea ... (Cinematography)
- Elementary Phrases ... (Director)
1992
- Clepsydra ... (Director)
1989
- Remains to Be Seen ... (Director)
- Rocket Boy vs. Brakhage ... (Director)
- The Exquisite Hour ... (Director)
1988
- The Secret Garden ... (Director)
1983
- What’s Out Tonight Is Lost ... (Director)
1980
- Nocturne ... (Director)
- As If We ... (Director)
- The Passage of the Bride ... (Director)
1975
- Nightlight ... (Director)