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...

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

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...

An experimental dark comedy about an aging prairie poet who tells the fantastical tale about the birth of her muse.

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

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

"Like a world seen in sleep - a paradox of wakefulness and delirium, part lucid dream, part sunshine through sleep-heavy lids - the treated footage...

B&W/Super-8/16mm

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

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

It's 1903, and Otto Weininger, Vienna's most infamous self-hating Jew has decided to kill himself in a room containing Beethoven's deathbed. He has...

A hand-processed/colour-manipulated portrait of the last member of a Jewish farming colony in Central Canada who guards over the precious relics of...

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

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

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 poem on light with accompanying images

B&W and Colour/Super-8/16mm

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...