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PHIL SOLOMON: PROGRAMME 1 THE EXQUISITE HOUR THE SNOWMAN CLEPSYDRA<\/strong> PSALM III: \u201cNIGHT OF THE MEEK\u201d<\/strong> REHEARSALS FOR RETIREMENT
\nMonday 24 October 2011, at 7pm
\nLondon Tate Modern<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPhil Solomon, 1989\/94, 16mm, colour, sound, 14 min
\n<\/strong>\u201c\u2026 Partly a lullaby for the dying, partly a lament of the death of cinema \u2026 [it] is dedicated to the memory of my grandparents, Albert Solomon, who was a projectionist for Fox, and Rose Solomon, who took tickets at Lowe\u2019s Paradise in the Bronx.\u201d (Phil Solomon)<\/p>\n
\nPhil Solomon, 1995, 16mm, colour, sound, 8 min
\n<\/strong>\u201cA meditation on memory, burial and decay \u2013 a belated kaddish for my father.\u201d (Phil Solomon)<\/p>\n
\nPhil Solomon, 1992, 16mm, b\/w, silent, 15 min
\n<\/strong>\u201cSolomon has evolved his technique so that in his latest work (\u2018Clepsydra\u2019 \u2013 \u2018waterclock\u2019) the textures are constantly changing and are often appropriate to each figure in metaphoric interplay with each figure\u2019s gestural (symbolic) movement. He has, thus, created consonance with thought as destroyer\/creator \u2013 a Kali-like aesthetic \u2018There is a light at the end of the tunnel\u2019 (Romantic); and it is a train coming straight at us: \u2026 (and, to balance such, perhaps, with a touch of Zen) \u2026 it is beautiful!\u201d (Stan Brakhage)<\/p>\n
\nPhil Solomon, 2002, 16mm, b\/w, sound, 23 min
\n<\/strong>\u201cIt is Berlin, November 9, 1938, and, as the night air is shattered throughout the city, the Rabbi of Prague is summoned from a dark slumber, called upon once again to invoke the magic letters from the Great Book that will bring his creature made from earth back to life, in the hour of need. A kindertodenliede<\/em> in black and silver on a night of gods and monsters.\u201d (Phil Solomon)<\/p>\n
\nPhil Solomon, 2007, video, colour, sound, 10 min
\n<\/strong>\u201cHad I known the end would end in laughter \/ I tell my daughter it doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d (Phil Ochs)<\/p>\n