Artist in Person From Boulder, Phil Solomon returns to sea level with an evening of four recent films, including the premiere of a new work, Alternating Currents. This film is the second collaboration between Solomon and Stan Brakhage. Brakhage's hand-painted film strips are exquisitely transformed, through Solomon's complex optical treatments, into rivers and airshafts of light, an ecstatic celebration of aqua and chroma. Elementary Phrases (1994, 38 mins, Silent, Color), the first collaboration between the filmmakers, is a primer of possibilities for optically modulated hand painting. Figure/Ground (1994) is a meditation on burial, decay, and memory, a belated Kaddish for the artist's father. Finally, Solomon will present a new 16mm "translation" of The Exquisite Hour (1989, revised 1994, 14 mins, Color), with a digitally remixed soundtrack. The original Super-8 film was voted one of the Top Ten Films of 1989 by Village Voice critic Manohla Dargis: "This film cuts to the bone."