Phil Solomon Movies

Heading through Colorado Territory in search of gold and women, Alferd Packer and his group of bemused companions find themselves lost, starving and...

The shadows of screams climb beyond the hills. It has happened before. But this will be the last time. The last few sense it, withdrawing deep into...

In this handmade film, composed of more than four thousand collages, the actress Lillian Gish is seamlessly appropriated from silent-era cinema and...

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

An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's...

The second feature-length film directed by Scott Barley.

Nocturne evokes one of the most magnificent films of Brakhage: Fire of Waters. It takes place in a suburb populated by children playing and...

A would-be exile explores her Georgia O'Keeffe fantasies through customer support calls.

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

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...

The air swarms with hidden energies and engines, invisible broadcasts crackling ominously. History is written in midair, written on the wind, above...

Part of "In Memoriam", a body of work comprising several videos, shot entirely within the virtual world of the Grand Theft Auto video game. Solomon...

Colleagues at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the two began with strips of film Brakhage had painted on by hand, photographing them frame by...

Clepsydra is an ancient Greek water clock (literally, "to steal water"). This film envisions the strip of celluloid going vertically through a...

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

“A meditation on memory, burial and decay – a belated kaddish for my father.” (Phil Solomon)

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

Phil Solomon's unreleased GTA film. Made in Grand Theft Auto V.

Psalm IV: Valley of the Shadow, pairs moody landscape imagery culled from a video game with John Huston’s reading of James Joyce’s...

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