Movies: Solomon Nagler

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

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

B&W/Super-8/16mm...

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....

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

"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-bl...

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-...