Solomon Nagler Movies

The explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative that became the most highly respected and...

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...

A short film that weaves together original and archival material to create an ethereal narrative texture, Black Saltwater Elegy intimately links the...

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...

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

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...

A counter monument for five unmarked mass graves in the forests of eastern Poland. Phytograms gleaned and generated from flora on site - exposed and...

Silent 16mm loop made for the situated cinema project at ArtSpace in Sydney, Australia. Filmed in an unlit abandoned music hall in Sackville, NB.

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...

a poem on light with accompanying images

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

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

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

An upheaval - stitched and woven into abrupt 16mm light sculptures that reflect on besieged cities as they become ripped apart and reconfigured due...

Silent 16mm loop made for the situated cinema project at ArtSpace in Sydney, Australia. Composed of old footage from the directors' families.

Drawing on issues of memory, decay, palimpsest and the rubbing together of archive, fiction and situations, pilgrimage was constructed from found...

An intimate synthesis of sound and picture is created in Celluloid Sounds, a 16mm hand-processed film instillation. Crackles and pops carved onto...

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.

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...