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 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...

A brief short of Phil Solomon and Stan Brakhage going to the movies in the spring of 2002.

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

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

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

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

Brakhage's hand carvings directly into the film emulsions are illuminated and textured by Solomon's lighting and optical printing.

A little nachtmusick, a deep blue overture to the series. Breathing in the cool night airs, breathing out a children's song; then whispering a...

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 Dead”.

Imagine a rusted, medieval film can having survived centuries, a long lost D. W. Griffith / Georges Méliès co-production, a film left to us from...

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 crowd of...

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

An experiment in 3D abetted by a Pulfrich filter, originally theorized in the 1920s. Features water cinematography by Phil Solomon.

An alchemically treated lullaby to the end of cinema, featuring Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

Phil Solomon's fist attempt at a cine-nocturne.

Experimental, paint on celluloid

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

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...

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