Movies: Solomon Nagler

A Visual essay of indexical failures that examine the bliss of ineffable gestures…...

A short film that weaves together original and archival material to create an ethereal narrative texture, Black Saltwater Elegy intimately links the discordant threads of a popular history of dispossession (Africville) with the solitude of its protag...

The everyday life of a couple at the twilight of their lives....

Polish land taking in the Jewish dead. Beneath the streets of Warsaw, under the garden of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China, are the lost writings of The Ash Kodesh (the holy fire), Rabbi Klonimus Kalmish Szapiro, a Chassidic master who w...

A survivor of the Holocaust and an impoverished aboriginal boy have just died. United in their displacement, they become caught up in the flux of transmigration. A nomadic fugue, they wander timelessly among the naked souls of Winnipeg's desolate Nor...

"Like a world seen in sleep - a paradox of wakefulness and delirium, part lucid dream, part sunshine through sleep-heavy lids - the treated footage in Solomon Nagler's perhaps/We follows a cycle, with motifs of the ever-present twilight in a steel-bl...

Found memories decayed by the shock patterns of childhood trauma. This films is made mostly with footage found in the bin of an ophanage. The white progressivelly disolve within a darknest more and more dense. Faces progressivelly disolves within one...

A counter monument for five unmarked mass graves in the forests of eastern Poland. Phytograms gleaned and generated from flora on site - exposed and processed in situ. Research completed in partnership with the Zapomniane Foundation....

Shot entirely in Warsaw, Poland, a polish post-communist love story set in the urban chaos of a farmers market in the city's centre....

An upheaval - stitched and woven into abrupt 16mm light sculptures that reflect on besieged cities as they become ripped apart and reconfigured due to urban gentrification. The film material is sourced from fragments of rubble infrastructure disperse...

"Which ever word you speak you owe to destruction" Hand-processed sound/picture explores the intimate relationship between...

The explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative that became the most highly respected and mythologized film centre in Canada. Tales outlines the tremendous importance and impact of Winnipeg on the nati...

Hannah is about to have her third miscarriage. Working as a social worker at the Mission to Seafarers, she discovers a stowaway drifting aimlessly in the harbour, and decides to give the young man shelter in a decommissioned, cold war era nuclear fal...

a poem on light with accompanying images...

a short film by Solomon Nagler & Alexandre Larose...

A work using the basic dramatic skeleton of a Greek tragedy while hanging rancid bits of contemporary meat on the bones. Fashioned in the school of prairie surrealism, revolving around the theme that "The gods don't know how to cook"....

An intimate synthesis of sound and picture is created in Celluloid Sounds, a 16mm hand-processed film instillation. Crackles and pops carved onto hand-processed images float throughout the mysterious pseudo-multiplex, repetitiously mocking the enviro...

Passages retrieved from the lublin genizah, a ruinous non-archive where the sacred is slowly being released from it's corporal form....

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A film shot in three sequences, each sequence corresponds to one of the letters in the title of the film. The title M.O.Y. gets it's meaning only from the actions within the film narrative itself, and lacks any meaning outside the film....