Phil Solomon

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.

Directed

1. Seasons... (2002) — Director
2. Rehearsals for Retirement (2007) — Director
3. The Secret Garden (1988) — Director
4. Elementary Phrases (1994) — Director
5. Psalm II: Walking Distance (2000) — Director
6. Last Days in a Lonely Place (2007) — Director
7. Psalm III: Night of the Meek (2002) — Director
8. The Emblazoned Apparitions (2013) — Director
9. Remains to Be Seen (1989) — Director
10. Nocturne (1980) — Director
11. Clepsydra (1992) — Director
12. Still Raining, Still Dreaming (2009) — Director
13. Concrescence (1996) — Director
14. Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day (2002) — Director
15. The Exquisite Hour (1989) — Director
16. The Snowman (1995) — Director
17. Psalm IV: Valley of the Shadow (2014) — Director
18. What’s Out Tonight Is Lost (1983) — Director
19. Psalm I: The Lateness of the Hour (1999) — Director
20. By This River (2018) — Director
21. Crossroad (2005) — Director
22. Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes (1999) — Director
23. Innocence and Despair (2002) — Director
24. American Falls (2010) — Director
25. Alternating Currents (1994) — Director
26. Empire (2008) — Director
27. The Passage of the Bride (1980) — Director
28. The Summit (2023) — Director
29. Rocket Boy vs. Brakhage (1989) — Director
30. Nightlight (1975) — Director
31. Simply Because You're Near Me (2013) — Director
32. As If We (1980) — Director
33. Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting (2002) — Director
34. The Eternal Courtship (2013) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Cannibal! The Musical (1996) — Miner (uncredited)
2. Brakhage (1998) — Self
3. Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day (2002) — Himself