SOLOMON NAGLER
CINEMA DES RUINES (ICPCE publish.)
(DVD) 24,00 euros
Contains:
Black Salt Water Elegy
(2010, n&b, 16 mm, 16min)
Notes on Gesture
(2007, n&b, 16mm, 4 min)
Fugue Nefesh
(2007, n&b, 35mm, 29 min)
The Sex of Self-Hatred
(2004, couleurs & n&b, 16mm, 9 min)
Perhaps/We
(2003, couleurs & n&b, 16mm, 11 min)
Untitled3 (stone killer)
(2006, n&b, super-8/16mm, 5 min)
Untitled1 (prayerielandescape)
(2004, couleurs & n&b, super-8/16mm, 5 min)
Untitled2 (the last jew of edenbridge)
(2003, couleurs & n&b, super-8/16mm, 4 min)
"Solomon Nagler’s film work twists and turns through the uncanny topological spaces between abstraction and representation, negation and affirmation, place and placelessness."
"Allegorical by design, Nagler’s vision is composed of fragments of recognizable reality commingled with the raw matter of hallucination and nascent form. In Nagler’s work, vision is both a phenomenological and historical entity; a damaged engagement with time, space, and the archaeologies of memory and film. Stories of migration and refuge take suggestive shape, often against and within the vast expanses of the Canadian prairies. In Nagler’s cinema, ethical engagement has to be equal to the task of the precariousness of life in transition. Home is temporary; home is a refuge."
Scott Birdwise (Programmer, Canadian Film Institute)
Solomon Nagler est un cinéaste canadien originaire de Winnipeg.
Aux frontières de la narration et de l’abstraction, les films de Nagler nous invitent à explorer les “intérieurs” des personnages qu’il dépeint. Paysages et symboles se mêlent continuellement, questionnant l’identité et les mémoires intimes. Il semble alors que, loin des surfaces lisses des êtres, nous pouvons toucher leur essence.
Sarah Darmon
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