[Frameworks] For NY-area folks: Phil Solomon Memorial Screening at MoMI (May 19)

[Tomoko Kawamoto]

Museum of the Moving Image will host a memorial screening for Phil Solomon
on Sunday, May 19, organized by David Schwartz. Please see below for
details.

Phil Solomon Memorial Screening
SUNDAY, MAY 19, 4:30 P.M.
Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave, Astoria (Queens), NY
Event link:
http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2019/05/19/detail/phil-solomon-memorial-screening


Phil Solomon, who died this April, was one of the most beloved American
avant-garde filmmakers. A student of Ken Jacobs at SUNY Binghmaton, and
colleague of Stan Brakhage at the University of Colorado in Boulder,
Solomon forged his own unique image alchemy, manipulating existing and
original footage to create evocative, beautiful, and dreamlike works that
reveal subterranean depths in their exquisite imagery. Generous,
soft-spoken, equally serious and humorous, Solomon will be greatly missed.
His work, miniaturist yet masterful, lives on, along with his legacy as an
artist and teacher. This memorial screening will include 16mm prints of
four of his greatest films (including a collaboration with Stan Brakhage).
The program will include remarks by some of Solomon’s friends and
colleagues. Thanks to Canyon Cinema, source of the 16mm prints.—David
Schwartz, Curator-at-Large

Films to be screened:

*The Secret Garden* (1988, 23 mins.) “The Secret Garden is one of Solomon's
most exquisite films. As with Leslie Thornton and Lewis Klahr, there is the
shadow of a story here, one which deals with the passage from innocence and
experience and invokes equally terror and ecstasy.” (Tom Gunning)

*The Exquisite Hour* (1989-1994, 14 mins.) Partly a lullaby for the dying,
partly a lament at the dusk of cinema. Based on the song by Reynaldo Hahn
and Paul Verlaine. (from Canyon Cinema catalog)

*Remains to Be Seen* (1989-1994, 17 mins.) “In the melancholic Remains to
Be Seen, dedicated to the memory of Solomon's mother, the scratchy rhythm
of a respirator intones menace. The film, optically crisscrossed with tiny
eggshell cracks, often seems on the verge of shattering. The passage from
life into death is chartered by fugitive images: pans of an operating room,
an old home movie of a picnic, a bicyclist in vague outline against burnt
orange and blue .... Solomon measures emotions with images that seem stolen
from a family album of collective memory." (Manohla Dargis, The Village
Voice)

*Seasons…* (2002, 15 mins. Silent) “Stan Brakhage's frame-by-frame hand
carvings and etchings directly into the film emulsion, sometimes
photographically combined with paint, are illuminated by Solomon's optical
printing; this footage was then edited by Solomon into a four part
'seasonal cycle.' Seasons… is inspired by the colors and textures found in
the woodcuts of Hokusai and Hiroshige, and the playful sense of forms
dancing in space from the film works of Robert Breer and Len Lye.” (Canyon
Cinema)

Tickets are $15 with discounts for seniors, students, youth and museum
members (includes Museum admission).
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