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.
In 2015 Solomon was CIRCUIT's inaugural international curator—at—large. He conceptualised and co-curated the programme Six artists respond to the poetry of Joanna Margaret Paul, which became one of CIRCUIT's most widely shown curatorial projects, showing at venues across Aotearoa and internationally. An iteration of the project entitled Joanna Margaret Paul: I am an open window paired the six new commissions with original works by Joanna Paul and screened at at the 2015 BFI London Film Festival.
Six Artists Respond to the Poetry of Joanna Margaret Paul
Co-curator Solomon Nagler writes about the works commissioned for the programme Six artists respond to the poetry of Joanna Margaret Paul.