Lodestar: Phil Solomon, In Memorium
_20240909073259PM.jpg "Once in a Lullaby (Joshua Minor, 2008, 5 minutes, color, sound)")
Lodestar: Phil Solomon, in Memoriam
Programmed and presented by Melinda Barlow, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts, University of Colorado
An elegy and celebration of the life and work of extraordinary experimental filmmaker and masterful optical printer Philip Stewart Solomon (1954-2019), this program brings together films that were made as gifts by and for Solomon over the last twenty years, and films that he especially treasured.
Featuring a rare screening of the exquisite Yes, I Said Yes, I Will, Yes (1999), a film Solomon made for his wife on the occasion of their marriage, the evening also includes films by Solomon's friend and colleague David Gatten, former student Joshua Minor, and mentor and collaborator Stan Brakhage. A twilight psalm for the man whose films so elegantly expressed that what's out tonight is lost.
Films to be screened:
Narrow Rivers, Open Seas, & Seventeen Sunsets (Silences for a Merchant Mariner)
(David Gatten, 2016, 8 minutes, 16mm)
Once in a Lullaby
(Joshua Minor, 2008, 5 minutes, Digital)
Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: Abbreviation for Dead Winter [Diminished by 1,794]
(David Gatten, 2008, 13 minutes, black & white, 16mm)
Yes, I Said Yes, I Will, Yes
(Phil Solomon, 1999, 3 minutes, color, 16mm)
Stellar
(Stan Brakhage, 1993, 2.5 minutes, color, 16mm)
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Melinda Barlow, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts at the University of Colorado, where she has received four teaching awards: The Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award, the Gold Best Should Teach Award, the Dean's Senior Honors Teaching Fellowship and the Marinus G. Smith Award. A film historian, curator, and creator of 50 workshops on mentoring, she curated "Primal Seen: Selections from the CU Art Museum's Collection of Photography from the 19th Century to the Present," "1959: A Golden Year on the Silver Screen" in Denver, and "Rupture: The Photographs of Britland Tracy," at the RULE Gallery in Marfa, TX and Denver, CO.
