Phil Solomon

Personal Info

Known ForDirecting
Born1954-01-03
BirthplaceManhattan, New York, USA

Phil Solomon

Directing

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.

Filmography

Acting (3)

1998
Brakhageas Self
7.1
1996
Cannibal! The Musicalas Miner (uncredited)
6.4

Production & Directing (43)

2023
The SummitDirector
2018
7.3
5.0
6.7
2011
Turbulent WatersCinematography
2.0
2011
6.0
2010
6.0
2009
6.7
2008
EmpireDirector
6.0
2005
CrossroadDirector
7.3
2002
Seasons...Director
6.7
6.3
1998
1996
ConcrescenceDirector
7.0
1995
The SnowmanDirector
7.3
1994
1994
6.1
7.5
1992
ClepsydraDirector
7.0
1989
6.3
1989
7.2
1988
7.4
1980
As If WeDirector
1980
NocturneDirector
7.8
1975
NightlightDirector