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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

The everyday life of a couple at the twilight of their lives.

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

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

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...

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

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

B&W/Super-8/16mm

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...

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...

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.

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...

Passages retrieved from the lublin genizah, a ruinous non-archive where the sacred is slowly being released from it's corporal form.