{"id":62,"date":"2011-08-21T03:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T02:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/?p=62"},"modified":"2013-08-12T12:38:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T11:38:05","slug":"phil-solomon%e2%80%99s-american-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/2011\/08\/21\/phil-solomon%e2%80%99s-american-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Solomon\u2019s American Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Solomon-AmericanFalls-4sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76\" title=\"Phil Solomon: American Falls\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Solomon-AmericanFalls-4sm.jpg\" width=\"435\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Solomon-AmericanFalls-4sm.jpg 435w, https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Solomon-AmericanFalls-4sm-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sunday 23 October 2011, at 4pm, NFT3<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Should anyone imagine that the art of alchemy died with the Middle Ages, Phil Solomon&#8217;s\u00a0American Falls testifies to the contrary: both to the possibilities of photographic and digital transformation and to the magical emanations of their fusion.\u2019 (Tony Pipolo, <a href=\"http:\/\/artforum.com\/film\/id=26500\" target=\"_blank\">Artforum<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>American Falls<\/strong><br \/> Phil Solomon | USA 2010 | 60 min<br \/> In his sublime 16mm films, Phil Solomon chemically alters photographic imagery to create a thick celluloid impasto that infuses footage with profound emotional resonance. For <em>American Falls<\/em>, Solomon rifles through a collective memory fashioned from both fact and fiction, mixing elements from newsreels, actualities and narrative films in a monumental retelling of American history which draws parallels with and reflects upon the current state of the nation. Houdini, Harold Lloyd, Keaton and King Kong commingle with presidents, gold-diggers, railroad barons and the civil rights movement. \u2018My project is ultimately one of great hope, stemming from a life-long love for this American experiment of ours \u2026 but it is also necessitated by my deepest concern for its present and future directions.\u2019 Originally conceived as a 360-degree installation around the walls of the Corcoran Gallery of Art\u2019s rotunda, the work has been reconfigured for the cinema as a panoramic view in triptych, with surround sound mix by composer Wrick Wolff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s Out Tonight Is Lost<\/strong><br \/> Phil Solomon | USA 1983 | 8min<br \/> \u2018The film began in response to an evaporating relationship, but gradually seeped outward to anticipate other imminent disappearing acts: youth, family, friends, time \u2026 I wanted the tonal shifts of the film\u2019s surface to act as a barometer of the changes in the emotional weather.\u2019 (PS)<em><br \/> Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Los Angeles.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mark Webber<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also screening:<\/strong><br \/> Tuesday 25 October 2011, at 4pm, NFT3<\/p>\n<p>Phil Solomon will present screenings of his earlier films at <a title=\"Phil Solomon at Tate Modern\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/modern\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tate Modern<\/a> on 24 &amp; 27 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 23 October 2011, at 4pm, NFT3 \u2018Should anyone imagine that the art of alchemy died with the Middle Ages, Phil Solomon&#8217;s\u00a0American Falls testifies to the contrary: both to the possibilities of photographic and digital transformation and to the magical emanations of their fusion.\u2019 (Tony Pipolo, Artforum) American Falls Phil Solomon | USA 2010 | [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[37,36,14,29,161,16],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-weekend","category-phil-solomon","tag-37","tag-36","tag-films","tag-lff-2011","tag-phil-solomon","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/1300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}