Phil Solomon
Directing
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
Directing34
movieThe Summit
2023
Director
movieBy This River
2018
Director
movieThe Eternal Courtship
2013
Director
movieAmerican Falls
2010
Director
movieEmpire
2008
Director
movieCrossroad
2005
Director
movieSeasons...
2002
Director
movieInnocence and Despair
2002
Director
movieConcrescence
1996
Director
movieThe Snowman
1995
Director
movieElementary Phrases
1994
Director
movieClepsydra
1992
Director
movieThe Exquisite Hour
1989
Director
movieRemains to Be Seen
1989
Director
movieThe Secret Garden
1988
Director
As If We
1980
Director
movieNocturne
1980
Director
Nightlight
1975
Director
Crew6
movieTurbulent Waters
2011
Cinematography
movieSweetgrass
2009
Thanks
movieBitemporal Vision: The Sea
1994
Cinematography
movieThe Sea Behind Her Head
In Memory Of
Acting3
movieCannibal! The Musical
1996
Miner (uncredited)
Editing1
movieNight Hunter
2011
Editor
Production1
movieFive Films by Phil Solomon
Producer
Sound1
movieFloating under a Honey Tree
1998
Sound Designer