Phil Solomon
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 3, 1954
- Place of birth
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Died
- April 20, 2019
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.
Movies with Phil Solomon
- Cannibal! The Musical 1996 · ★ 6.4
- Brakhage 1998 · ★ 7.1
- Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day 2002 · ★ 7.6
Movies directed by Phil Solomon
- Seasons... 2002 · ★ 6.7
- Rehearsals for Retirement 2007 · ★ 7.2
- The Secret Garden 1988 · ★ 7.4
- Last Days in a Lonely Place 2007 · ★ 6.9
- Psalm II: Walking Distance 2000 · ★ 7.4
- Elementary Phrases 1994 · ★ 6.1
- Psalm III: Night of the Meek 2002 · ★ 7.4
- The Emblazoned Apparitions 2013 · ★ 7.1
- Remains to Be Seen 1989 · ★ 7.2
- Still Raining, Still Dreaming 2009 · ★ 6.4
- What’s Out Tonight Is Lost 1983 · ★ 7.2
- Clepsydra 1992 · ★ 7.0
- Nocturne 1980 · ★ 7.8
- Concrescence 1996 · ★ 7.0
- Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day 2002 · ★ 7.6
- The Exquisite Hour 1989 · ★ 6.2
- The Snowman 1995 · ★ 7.2
- Crossroad 2005 · ★ 7.2
- Psalm I: The Lateness of the Hour 1999 · ★ 7.3
- Psalm IV: Valley of the Shadow 2014 · ★ 5.7
- By This River 2018 · ★ 7.3
- Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes 1999 · ★ 8.0
- Innocence and Despair 2002 · ★ 6.3
- American Falls 2010 · ★ 6.0
- Alternating Currents 1994 · ★ 7.5
- Empire 2008 · ★ 6.0
- The Passage of the Bride 1980 · ★ 8.0
- The Summit 2023
- Rocket Boy vs. Brakhage 1989
- Nightlight 1975
- Simply Because You're Near Me 2013
- As If We 1980
- Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting 2002
- The Eternal Courtship 2013