The Secret Garden Phil Solomon

Solomon was born on January 3 1954 in Manhattan New York City New York USA as Philip Stewart Solomon.

The secret garden phil solomon. PLANTAS TREPADORAS Julieta Averbuj 2013 35mm. No filmmaker of the 1980s knew as much as Phil Solomon of affirming the importance of multiple layers in the visual production of images. THE SECRET GARDEN is one of Solomons best films.

Not long before his death Phil Solomon 1954-2019 was talking to an interviewer about the role grief plays in his art when his oxygen machine suddenly turned off. Like Thornton and Klahr there is the shadow of a story here which has to do with the passage from innocence and experience to terror and ecstasy -T. Secret Gardens will offer a selection of 13 films in their original formats 35mm 16mm and super 8 all of them signed by prominent authors of avant-garde cinema such as Rose Lowder Margaret Tait Stan Brakhage Nathaniel Dorsky Phil Solomon and Bruce Baillie among others.

Recently Solomon has earned acclaim for a series of films that incorporate machinima made using games from the Grand Theft Auto series. The secret garden 1988 director. Solomon was an associate of the influential American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage with whom he taught film at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Solomon created a laboratory in his home where he could manipulate images from for instance the wizard of oz used in his 1988 film the secret garden or. See with me or lose yourself in the realm of the mundane. Walking Distance 1999 and Remains to Be Seen 1989.

He was a director known for The Exquisite Hour 1994 Psalm II. Rated the 49 best film of 1988 and 3021 in the greatest all-time movies according to RYM users. A combination of images portraying water surfaces filmed by Solomon RIP that dialogue with fragments of found footage from both The Wizard of Oz and one of the commercial versions of The Secret Garden a story that is suggested in the films subtitles.

Directed by Toshiaki Toyoda. The Secret Garden 1988 16mm color silent 23 min No filmmaker reveals the faith in the multiple layers of visual images that the eighties have re-affirmed more than Phil Solomon. Phil was new to me and his films took my breath away culminating in The Secret Garden 1988 a 16mm masterpiece hot off the press.