Most Popular Solomon Nagler Trailers
Total trailers found: 27
Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group Trailer (2017)
01 November 2017
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.
Doc1.doc Trailer (1999)
19 April 1999
A work using the basic dramatic skeleton of a Greek tragedy while hanging rancid bits of contemporary meat on the bones.
genizah; passages from the lublin book graveyard Trailer (2018)
20 March 2018
Passages retrieved from the lublin genizah, a ruinous non-archive where the sacred is slowly being released from it's corporal form.
Spadiensi Pwatki Trailer (1999)
30 August 1999
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.
Celluloid Sounds Trailer (2008)
21 April 2008
An intimate synthesis of sound and picture is created in Celluloid Sounds, a 16mm hand-processed film instillation.
Closing on Unrest Trailer (2020)
19 February 2020
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.
ReRuin Trailer (2001)
07 September 2001
"Which ever word you speak you owe to destruction" Hand-processed sound/picture explores the intimatn
A Treatise on Prairie Mysticism Trailer (2001)
14 September 2001
An experimental dark comedy about an aging prairie poet who tells the fantastical tale about the birth of her muse.
an accumulation of our aftermaths Trailer (2020)
10 January 2020
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.
M.O.Y. Trailer (1998)
23 August 1998
A film shot in three sequences, each sequence corresponds to one of the letters in the title of the film.
Days of doubt Trailer (2017)
01 January 2017
The everyday life of a couple at the twilight of their lives.
pilgrimage Trailer (2015)
01 January 2015
Drawing on issues of memory, decay, palimpsest and the rubbing together of archive, fiction and situations, pilgrimage was constructed from found strips of 8mm amateur footage gleaned during a residency in Sydney, Australia.
Gravity and Grace Trailer (2012)
12 September 2012
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 fallout bunker that is being redesigned by her partner Antonia to serve as an archive dedicated to hagiographic graphology (the study of the saints through their handwriting).
J. Trailer (2008)
10 June 2008
Found memories decayed by the shock patterns of childhood trauma. This films is made mostly with footage found in the bin of an ophanage.
Notes on Gesture Trailer (2007)
19 March 2007
A Visual essay of indexical failures that examine the bliss of ineffable gestures…
Untitled 2 (The Last Jew of Edenbridge) Trailer (2006)
01 January 2006
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 idealistic past.
Nadija Trailer (2013)
01 January 2013
Silent 16mm loop made for the situated cinema project at ArtSpace in Sydney, Australia. Composed of old footage from the directors' families.
Black Salt Water Elegy Trailer (2010)
01 January 2010
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 protagonist's graveyard-shift fantasies.
Sackville Music Hall Trailer (2013)
01 December 2013
Silent 16mm loop made for the situated cinema project at ArtSpace in Sydney, Australia. Filmed in an unlit abandoned music hall in Sackville, NB.
perhaps/We Trailer (2003)
01 January 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.
song of the holy fire Trailer (2023)
12 October 2023
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 was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto.
The Sex of Self-Hatred Trailer (2004)
01 January 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.
Fugue Nefesh Trailer (2007)
01 January 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.
