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Free Screening. Phil Solomon in person
The significance of American filmmaker Phil Solomon’s body of work over the past thirty years is amplified by the artist’s mastery of imagery that truly straddles the film/digital divide. In his early work, Solomon favoured intricate artisanal methods, subjecting found footage to high degrees
of chemical processing and optically printing the results. This approach shifted significantly in 2005, when Solomon began to use the immersive videogame world of Grand Theft Auto as the setting in which to make his films.
Tonight’s program, Early Work & Collaborations, focuses on Solomon’s early work in the 1980s which marked a move away from the avant-garde’s preoccupation with psychodrama, conceptualism and politics to a more expressive lyricism of image and montage. Including collaborations with Mark LaPore and Stan Brakhage.
What’s Out Tonight is Lost (dir. Phil Solomon \ USA 1983 \ 8 min. \ 16mm)
Crossroad (dirs. Phil Solomon & Mark LaPore \ USA 2005 \ 5 min. \ video)
The Exquisite Hour (dir. Phil Solomon \ USA 1989/1994 \ 14 min. \ Super 8 on 16mm)
The Secret Garden (dir. Phil Solomon \ USA 1988 \ 17 min. \ 16mm)
Seasons… (dirs. Phil Solomon & Stan Brakhage \ USA 2002 \ 18 min. \ 16mm)
The Snowman (dir. Phil Solomon \ USA 1995 \ 8 min. \ 16mm)
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