“Phil Solomon (b.1954) is a prominent American experimental filmmaker. His works have been widely exhibited. Solomon has been shown at the Whitney Biennial of American Art, the New York Film Festival, MoMA NY, Tate Modern, London, and innumerable other venues in the US, Europe, South America, Japan, Hong Kong, and India. American Falls, commissioned by Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC in 2010, has since been shown worldwide. This 56 minute, three channel digital video will be the highlight of the exhibition at the Hansen Center.

The grandson of Russian Jewish immigrants, reared in Monsey NY in the aftermath of WW II, Solomon has been and is to this day a major participant in the American film avant-garde. His works negotiate 20th century history through the history of film itself. In his magnum opus, American Falls (2010), he chemically manipulates iconic moments of American history as these have been presented in period films, thus weaving a cinematically mediated ironic and anxious look at the American dream. The filmic images drown in a ‘magma’ of molten emulsion in which Solomon finds, in his words, ‘the physical anxiety of the form itself’. This is American history told in a way that reflects tensions pertaining to body consciousness, and to situation in ‘place’.”

exhibition catalog

curator: Hava Aldouby

opening hours: Sun-Thur 10:00 – 18:00, Friday 10:00 – 14:00

Mamuta at Hansen House

closing: 31.8