"No filmmaker of the 1980s knew as much as Phil Solomon of affirming the importance of multiple layers in the visual production of images. Solomon perpetuates the Brakhagian tradition of creating a succession of images whose logic comes from a large number of rhythmic sources, formal, associative, and whose coherence passes from one source to another. Here, as with Brakhage, one must be spoiled in the trance offered by Solomon, and be sufficiently assured to follow a structure that is based as well on the melody, the harmonics and the flashes of metaphors as on a narrative plot. The Secret Garden is one of Solomon's best films. Like Thornton and Klahr, there is the shadow of a story here, which has to do with the passage from innocence and experience to terror and ecstasy." – T. Gunning.
Directed by Phil Solomon
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4.0 / 5
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Phil Solomon
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11 reviews
Mathias
6.0★ · 09/15/25
Just read the synopsis
Just read the synopsis
AiBets
8.0★ · 04/17/25
Dreaming of heaven. It’s fragmented but there’s a sense of wonder that shines through
Dreaming of heaven. It’s fragmented but there’s a sense of wonder that shines through
AiBets
8.0★ · 04/17/25
Dreaming of heaven. It’s fragmented but there’s a sense of wonder that shines through
Dreaming of heaven. It’s fragmented but there’s a sense of wonder that shines through
Mae Clegg
Like trying to remember a summer holiday when you were five or watching a film or a slowly dying television. Beautiful images on top of images to create a story that the mind itself plays a part in
Like trying to remember a summer holiday when you were five or watching a film or a slowly dying television. Beautiful images on top of images to create a story that the mind itself plays a part in
