Bio

Solomon Nagler's films have played across Canada, in the U.S., Europe and Asia at venues such the Centre Pompidou (Paris), L'Université Paris Panthéon Sorbonne and Lincoln Center in New York. His work has been featured in Retrospectives at the Winnipeg Cinematheque in August of 2004, at the Excentris Cinema in Montreal in August of 2007, the Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux in Paris in December 2005 and 2007, The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers and The Canadian Film Institute in 2009. Originally from Winnipeg, Solomon Nagler currently lives in Halifax where he is a professor of film production at NSCAD University.

Works

genizah; passages from the lublin book graveyard

  • 2018
  • Solomon Nagler

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

genizah; passages from the lublin book graveyard

days of doubt

  • 2017
  • Solomon Nagler

...stepped solitude of a shoe cobbler drifting in absence

days of doubt

skin of the cit-y

  • 2016
  • Solomon Nagler

Framed by poet Robert Lax's sculptural texts, skin of the cit-y wanders through mills and factories surrendering to the elements, deteriorating in solidarity with the isolated Maritime cities that erode beside them.

skin of the cit-y

untitled3 (stone killer)

  • 2005
  • Solomon Nagler

We have killed with a geometry that is not our own.

untitled3

The Sex of Self-Hatred

  • 2004
  • Solomon Nagler

An impressionistic elegy for Otto Weininger, Vienna's most infamous self-hating Jew.

The Sex of Self-Hatred

perhaps/We

  • 2003
  • Solomon Nagler

Within the mystical spaces of a Judaic self-doubt, falls a dreaming painter from the fallen Polish city of Lodz.

perhaps/We

untitled2 (the last jew of edenbridge)

  • 2003
  • Solomon Nagler

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.

untitled2 (the last jew of edenbridge)