Phil Solomon es un cineasta experimental destacado por su trabajo con celuloide y vídeo. Solomon ha sido reconocido recientemente por una serie de filmes que incorporan machinima utilizando juegos de la serie Grand Theft Auto. Sus filmes suelen ser descritos como líricos e inquietantes.
INDEX Edition 054 is dedicated to a particular group of works from the oeuvre of the major U.S. experimental filmmaker Phil Solomon (1954–2019), namely the trilogy In Memoriam (Mark LaPore), which Solomon – like its predecessor Crossroads –“distilled” from the video game Grand Theft Auto, as well as his two final works, Psalm IV: Valley of the Shadow and TheEmblazoned Apparitions.
Un coche fúnebre envuelto en niebla espesa avanza bajo la lluvia. Su recorrido atraviesa bosques, pastizales, túneles de tren, cercas de madera y rutas onduladas a una velocidad que podría describirse como hipnótica. Figuras humanas habitan espacios excéntricos en los que la gravedad no existe y las escenas se repiten, alternando entre extremos climáticos (de la lluvia al fuego) y objetos que giran en falso (entre la fragilidad y la inmortalidad). Las ciudades se desvanecen.
Tone Glow is excited to announce “You Wouldn’t Steal a Movie,” a program featuring 10 found-footage experimental films. The event will be held at Sweet Void Cinema in Chicago on Saturday, September 14th at 7pm. Throughout history, avant-garde filmmakers have recycled, repurposed, and reimagined older images into their own liking. In culling from a diverse array of sources—advertisements and educational films, newsreels and major motion pictures—they’ve constructed novel works that prove spellbinding in their new contexts.
Internationally acclaimed American filmmaker Phil Solomon (1954-2019) created a body of cinematic virtuosity and poetic resonance that profoundly expanded the found footage genre, as he explored and exploited material idiosyncrasies of his sources – whether chemically altering the emulsion of Hollywood films and personal home movies or détourning the digital gaming universe of Grand Theft Auto.
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De Sábado, Mayo 4, 2024 - 14:30 hasta Domingo, Mayo 5, 2024 - 18:30
Internationally acclaimed American filmmaker Phil Solomon (1952-2019) created a body of cinematic virtuosity and poetic resonance that profoundly expanded the found footage genre, as he explored and exploited material idiosyncrasies of his sources – whether chemically altering the emulsion of Hollywood films and personal home movies or détourning the digital gaming universe of Grand Theft Auto.
Scenes from under childhood. STAN BRAKHAGE. 1967 Study in natural magic. CHARLOTTE PRYCE. 2013 In the shadow of Marcus mountain. ROBERT SCHALLER. 2011 The secret Garden. PHIL SOLOMON. 1988 Night Train. GUY SHERWIN. 1979 Sound over water. MARY HELENA CLARK. 2009
Phil Solomon (1954-2019) was an immensely passionate, inspiring, and kind-hearted figure to so many who encountered him and his work. He inhabited this world as a generous friend, dedicated teacher and mentor, and as an artist of profound talent and feeling, whose films have inspired countless over the decades. Los Angeles Filmforum has hosted Phil Solomon on a few occasions over the years, and he was always one of our favorite guests, presenting programs of great personality and memorable, lingering emotionality. So although it is with great sadness th
Phil Solomon (January 3, 1954—April 20, 2019) was among the great avant-garde filmmakers of this era. Solomon’s more than twenty films and digital pieces create an interior universe that has rarely, if ever, been surpassed in any medium for its intimacy, evocation of personal sensibility, expressive dream-like sounds and images, and for its sublime—and terrifying—sense of ambiguity between the recognizable world and its dissolution.
