
Person
Phil Solomon
Directing · 1954–2019 · Manhattan, New York, USA
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.
Known for

Cannibal! The Musical
Miner (uncredited)

Night Hunter
Editor

Sleep Has Her House
Thanks

By This River
Director

Sweetgrass
Thanks

Brakhage
Self

Empire
Director

Remains to Be Seen
Director

Seasons...
Director

Nocturne
Director
Filmography
- 2023The SummitDirector
- 2018By This RiverDirector
- 2017Ida Western ExileThanks
- 2017Sleep Has Her HouseThanks
- 2014Psalm IV: Valley of the ShadowDirector
- 2013The Emblazoned ApparitionsDirector
- 2013Simply Because You're Near MeDirector
- 2013The Eternal CourtshipDirector
- 2011Turbulent WatersCinematography
- 2011Night HunterEditor
- 2010American FallsDirector
- 2009SweetgrassThanks
- 2009Still Raining, Still DreamingDirector
- 2008EmpireDirector
- 2007Rehearsals for RetirementDirector
- 2007Last Days in a Lonely PlaceDirector
- 2005CrossroadDirector
- 2002Life with Stan #4: Stan PaintingDirector
- 2002Psalm III: Night of the MeekDirector
- 2002Seasons...Director
- 2002Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of DayHimself
- 2002Innocence and DespairDirector
- 2000Psalm II: Walking DistanceDirector
- 1999Psalm I: The Lateness of the HourDirector
- 1999Yes I Said Yes I Will YesDirector
- 1998BrakhageSelf
- 1998Floating under a Honey TreeSound Designer
- 1996Cannibal! The MusicalMiner (uncredited)
- 1996ConcrescenceDirector
- 1995The SnowmanDirector
- 1994Bitemporal Vision: The SeaCinematography
- 1994Elementary PhrasesDirector
- 1994Alternating CurrentsDirector
- 1992ClepsydraDirector
- 1989Rocket Boy vs. BrakhageDirector
- 1989Remains to Be SeenDirector
- 1989The Exquisite HourDirector
- 1988The Secret GardenDirector
- 1983What’s Out Tonight Is LostDirector
- 1980As If WeDirector
- 1980The Passage of the BrideDirector
- 1980NocturneDirector
- 1975NightlightDirector
- —The Sea Behind Her HeadIn Memory Of
- —Five Films by Phil SolomonProducer
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