solomonnaglerfilmography

solomon nagler

filmography

	j. ( a collaboration with Quebec filmmaker Alexandre Larose ) (16mm, Color& Black and White, 6:30 minutes, 2009) "This film poem is a sombre, atmospheric reflection on fate. Larose and Nagler dig into the orphaned trash cans of cinema archives and transpose these old celluloid stories into a new light, interpreting the found images into a poem on need, affection and solitude" Program notes from Videoex Festival in Zurich Switzerland..
	Selected Screenings; 10ème Festival De Le Cinema Difference; Paris, France, The European Media Arts Festival; Osnabrück Germany 2009, Videoex Festival Zurich Switzerland, Gimli Film Festival, La 38ème édition du Festival du nouveau cinema, Montreal;Antimatter Underground Film Festival,Victoria B.C; Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Rep. ; Sample Clip Distributed in Europe by The Collectif Jeune Cinema , & in Canada by The Winnipeg Film Group

j. ( a collaboration with Quebec filmmaker Alexandre Larose )

(16mm, Color& Black and White, 6:30 minutes, 2009)

"This film poem is a sombre, atmospheric reflection on fate. Larose and Nagler dig into the orphaned trash cans of cinema archives and transpose these old celluloid stories into a new light, interpreting the found images into a poem on need, affection and solitude"

Program notes from Videoex Festival in Zurich Switzerland..

Selected Screenings;

10ème Festival De Le Cinema Difference; Paris, France, The European Media Arts Festival; Osnabrück Germany 2009, Videoex Festival Zurich Switzerland, Gimli Film Festival, La 38ème édition du Festival du nouveau cinema, Montreal;Antimatter Underground Film Festival,Victoria B.C; Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Rep. ;

Sample Clip

Distributed in Europe by The Collectif Jeune Cinema , & in Canada by The Winnipeg Film Group

	Notes on Gesture (16mm, Black and White, 4:30 minutes, 2007) A Visual essay of indexical failures that examine the bliss of ineffable gestures..
	Selected Screenings; La 37ème édition du Festival du nouveau cinema, Montreal; Antimatter Underground Film Festival,Victoria B.C ; Aurora Film Festival, Norwich England; CSIF $100.00 Film-Festival, 10ème Festival De Le Cinema Difference, Paris, France; Sample Clip

Notes on Gesture

(16mm, Black and White, 4:30 minutes, 2007)

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

Selected Screenings;

La 37ème édition du Festival du nouveau cinema, Montreal; Antimatter Underground Film Festival,Victoria B.C ; Aurora Film Festival, Norwich England; CSIF $100.00 Film-Festival, 10ème Festival De Le Cinema Difference, Paris, France;

Sample Clip

	Fugue Nefesh (35mm, Black and White, 29 minutes, 2007) 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 North End.
	Selected Screenings; La 36ème édition du Festival du nouveau cinema - Montreal - Antimatter Underground Film Festival - Victoria B.C - Festival De Le Cinema Difference, Paris, France - Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris France-Montreal Underground Film Festival; Gimli Film Festival; Canadian Film Institute, Ottawa; Sample Clip Listen to the opening score of Fugue Nefesh Composed by Lydia Ainsworth Distribution information Email Here

Fugue Nefesh

(35mm, Black and White, 29 minutes, 2007)

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 North End.

Selected Screenings;

La 36ème édition du Festival du nouveau cinema - Montreal - Antimatter Underground Film Festival - Victoria B.C - Festival De Le Cinema Difference, Paris, France - Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris France-Montreal Underground Film Festival; Gimli Film Festival; Canadian Film Institute, Ottawa;

Sample Clip

Listen to the opening score of Fugue Nefesh Composed by Lydia Ainsworth

Distribution information Email Here

	untitled3 (stone killer) (Video, B&W, 5:30, 2006) The colonial division between landscape and body has been rejected, and the politics of a new topology, one concerning a failed geometry imposed onto Canada's Great Plains has emerged. This film is a Portrait that has been sketched into an infinite horizon, where a body becomes one with the landscapes it has fallen into.
	Selected Screenings; The European Media Arts Festival, OSNABRÜCK Germany, Festival De Le Cinema Difference, Paris, France, EICV -15ième EDITION, Montreal Quebec, Vidéo Danse à la Cinémathèque Qubecoise - Montreal Quebec, Antimatter Film Festival - Victoria B.C., Montreal Underground Film Festival, Movement on Screen - Manchester, England; The Festival Tout-Courts, Aix-en-Provence, France Sample Clip Distributed in Europe by The Collectif Jeune Cinema , & in Canada by The Winnipeg Film Group

untitled3 (stone killer)

(Video, B&W, 5:30, 2006)

The colonial division between landscape and body has been rejected, and the politics of a new topology, one concerning a failed geometry imposed onto Canada's Great Plains has emerged. This film is a Portrait that has been sketched into an infinite horizon, where a body becomes one with the landscapes it has fallen into.

Selected Screenings;

The European Media Arts Festival, OSNABRÜCK Germany, Festival De Le Cinema Difference, Paris, France, EICV -15ième EDITION, Montreal Quebec, Vidéo Danse à la Cinémathèque Qubecoise - Montreal Quebec, Antimatter Film Festival - Victoria B.C., Montreal Underground Film Festival, Movement on Screen - Manchester, England; The Festival Tout-Courts, Aix-en-Provence, France

Sample Clip

Distributed in Europe by The Collectif Jeune Cinema , & in Canada by The Winnipeg Film Group

	The Sex of Self-Hatred (16mm, Color& Black and White, 9 minutes, 2004) 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 just published his first book Sex and Character, and has yet to witness an acknowledgment of his self-assured genius. Haunted by the damning statements within his own book, he holds a gun to his head, and takes a leap towards the great unknown.
	Selected Screenings; Brooklyn Underground Film Festival, Boston Underground Film Festival, Calgary $100.00 film festival,Foreman Art Gallery; Bishops University, Quebec, Festival de cinéma des 3 Amériques; Quebec City, Singapore International Film Festival, Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria British Columbia, Mini-Projo Screening Studio 303 - Montreal, The Lausanne Underground Film Festival, Switzerland, Festival Cinema Difference, Paris, France,4ème Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris France Internacionalni Festival - SARAJEVO 2006, The Montreal Underground Film Festival, The Harbourfront Centre Toronto Canada, Pescara Film Festival-Italy, 8th International Short Film Festival "Tinklai"- 4 city tour in Lithuania, Spread Video Art Project- Shinbashi Tokyo, Centre Pompidou Paris, France Program: "Demain, dès l´aube" Sample Clip Distributed in Europe by The Collectif Jeune Cinema , & in Canada by The Winnipeg Film Group

The Sex of Self-Hatred

(16mm, Color& Black and White, 9 minutes, 2004)

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 just published his first book Sex and Character, and has yet to witness an acknowledgment of his self-assured genius. Haunted by the damning statements within his own book, he holds a gun to his head, and takes a leap towards the great unknown.

Selected Screenings;

Brooklyn Underground Film Festival, Boston Underground Film Festival, Calgary $100.00 film festival,Foreman Art Gallery; Bishops University, Quebec, Festival de cinéma des 3 Amériques; Quebec City, Singapore International Film Festival, Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria British Columbia, Mini-Projo Screening Studio 303 - Montreal, The Lausanne Underground Film Festival, Switzerland, Festival Cinema Difference, Paris, France,4ème Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris France Internacionalni Festival - SARAJEVO 2006, The Montreal Underground Film Festival, The Harbourfront Centre Toronto Canada, Pescara Film Festival-Italy, 8th International Short Film Festival "Tinklai"- 4 city tour in Lithuania, Spread Video Art Project- Shinbashi Tokyo, Centre Pompidou Paris, France Program: "Demain, dès l´aube"

Sample Clip

Distributed in Europe by The Collectif Jeune Cinema , & in Canada by The Winnipeg Film Group

	perhaps/We (16mm, Black & White, Colour, 11 minutes, 2003) " 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-blue Warsaw set against what could be (but probably isn't) archive footage, of an old woman asleep on a day-bed and an overgrown, forgotten Jewish Cemetery. Found sounds and field recordings join scratched records to create a soundtrack as plaintive as Nagler's manipulated film stock, a lone voice introducing and concluding the film: I float/ Above the world/ In my sleep/ In my dreams / And every time I dream, I loose half my body. A rumination on loss and memory, or memories half-forgotten, whilst perhaps/We isn't figurative, it offers and account of humanity, peopled by ghosts - undoubtedly the ghosts of the Holocaust: mournful yet never peevish, never mawkish." Adam Pugh, Programmer Aurora Film Festival, Norwich England.
	Selected Screenings; The Telluride International Experimental Film Exposition, Colorado,The 42nd Ann Arbor Film Festival, Images Film Festival, Toronto, The European Media Arts Festival, OSNABRÜCK Germany,The Festival Tout-Courts, Aix-en-Provence, France, Festival De Le Cinema Difference, Paris, France, The Lausanne Underground Film Festival, Switzerland,The Boston Jewish Film Festival Sample Clip Distributed in Europe by The Collectif Jeune Cinema , in Canada by The Winnipeg Film Group & in the United States by Canyon Cinema

perhaps/We

(16mm, Black & White, Colour, 11 minutes, 2003)

" 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-blue Warsaw set against what could be (but probably isn't) archive footage, of an old woman asleep on a day-bed and an overgrown, forgotten Jewish Cemetery. Found sounds and field recordings join scratched records to create a soundtrack as plaintive as Nagler's manipulated film stock, a lone voice introducing and concluding the film: I float/ Above the world/ In my sleep/ In my dreams / And every time I dream, I loose half my body. A rumination on loss and memory, or memories half-forgotten, whilst perhaps/We isn't figurative, it offers and account of humanity, peopled by ghosts - undoubtedly the ghosts of the Holocaust: mournful yet never peevish, never mawkish."

Adam Pugh, Programmer Aurora Film Festival, Norwich England.

Selected Screenings;

The Telluride International Experimental Film Exposition, Colorado,The 42nd Ann Arbor Film Festival, Images Film Festival, Toronto, The European Media Arts Festival, OSNABRÜCK Germany,The Festival Tout-Courts, Aix-en-Provence, France, Festival De Le Cinema Difference, Paris, France, The Lausanne Underground Film Festival, Switzerland,The Boston Jewish Film Festival

Sample Clip

Distributed in Europe by The Collectif Jeune Cinema , in Canada by The Winnipeg Film Group & in the United States by Canyon Cinema

	untitled2 (the last jew of edenbridge) (Digital, Black & White, Colour, 4:30 minutes, 2003) 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 an indealistic past.n destruction and creation.
	Selected Screenings; The Vancouver New Music Festival, The Atlantic Jewish Film Festival, The New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center, The Montreal Jewish Film Festival, Festival De Le Cinema Difference, Paris, France Distributed in Europe by The Collectif Jeune Cinema , & in Canada by The Winnipeg Film Group

untitled2 (the last jew of edenbridge)

(Digital, Black & White, Colour, 4:30 minutes, 2003)

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 an indealistic past.n destruction and creation.

Selected Screenings;

The Vancouver New Music Festival, The Atlantic Jewish Film Festival, The New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center, The Montreal Jewish Film Festival, Festival De Le Cinema Difference, Paris, France

Distributed in Europe by The Collectif Jeune Cinema , & in Canada by The Winnipeg Film Group

	untitled1 (prayerielandescape) (Digital, Black & White, Colour, 5 minutes, 2004) Isolated dreams of broken cars falling through the horizon...
	Selected Screenings; The Vancouver New Music Festival, Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria. Festival De Le Cinema Difference, Paris, France Distributed in Europe by The Collectif Jeune Cinema , & in Canada by The Winnipeg Film Group

untitled1 (prayerielandescape)

(Digital, Black & White, Colour, 5 minutes, 2004)

Isolated dreams of broken cars falling through the horizon...

Selected Screenings;

The Vancouver New Music Festival, Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria. Festival De Le Cinema Difference, Paris, France

Distributed in Europe by The Collectif Jeune Cinema , & in Canada by The Winnipeg Film Group

	ReRuin (16mm, Colour, 10 minutes, 2001) "Which ever word you speak you owe to destruction" Hand-processed sound/picture explores the intimate relationship between
	Selected Screenings; The Pleasure Dome, Toronto , Manchester International Short Film Festival, Gimli Film Festival Festival De Le Cinema Difference, Paris, France Distributed by The Winnipeg Film Group

ReRuin

(16mm, Colour, 10 minutes, 2001)

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

Selected Screenings;

The Pleasure Dome, Toronto , Manchester International Short Film Festival, Gimli Film Festival Festival De Le Cinema Difference, Paris, France

Distributed by The Winnipeg Film Group

	A Treatise on Prairie Mysticism (16mm, Black & White, Colour, 26 minutes, 2001) An experimental dark comedy about an aging prairie poet who tells the fantastical tale about the birth of her muse.
	Selected Screenings; NSI Film Exchange 2002; WFG Program , LIFT Salon de Refuse Toronto , The Calgary $100.00 Film Festival , The Gimli Film Festival Distributed by The Winnipeg Film Group

A Treatise on Prairie Mysticism

(16mm, Black & White, Colour, 26 minutes, 2001)

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

Selected Screenings;

NSI Film Exchange 2002; WFG Program , LIFT Salon de Refuse Toronto , The Calgary $100.00 Film Festival , The Gimli Film Festival

Distributed by The Winnipeg Film Group

	Doc1.doc (16mm, Black & White, 5 minutes, 1999) A work using the basic dramatic skeleton of a Greek tragedy while hanging rancid bits of comtemporary meat on the bones. Fashioned in the school of prairie surrealism, revolving around the theme that "The gods don't know how to cook".
	Selected Screenings; Boston Underground Film Festival, Vancouver Underground Film Festival 2002 ,Winnipeg 19 Touring Show of New Winnipeg Film film/video , Festival De Le Cinema Difference, Paris, France Sample Clip Distributed by The Winnipeg Film Group

Doc1.doc

(16mm, Black & White, 5 minutes, 1999)

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

Selected Screenings;

Boston Underground Film Festival, Vancouver Underground Film Festival 2002 ,Winnipeg 19 Touring Show of New Winnipeg Film film/video , Festival De Le Cinema Difference, Paris, France

Sample Clip

Distributed by The Winnipeg Film Group

	M.O.Y. (16mm, Black & White, 3 minutes, 1998) 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.
	Selected Screenings; Local Heroes NSI Film Festival - Winnipeg Distributed by The Winnipeg Film Group

M.O.Y.

(16mm, Black & White, 3 minutes, 1998)

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.

Selected Screenings;

Local Heroes NSI Film Festival - Winnipeg

Distributed by The Winnipeg Film Group