The Passage of the Bride (1980)

Solomon's experimental film uses wedding footage as its base to build a visually hypnotic and mysterious experience. Rather than telling a typical wedding story, the filmmaker repeatedly shows familiar images until they become distorted and abstract. The result is rich with visual and thematic complexity, resisting simple understanding. Everyday wedding moments – a bride running, entering a car, or a man from a swim – transform into swirling black-and-white patterns like water. The title references Duchamp's Rrose Selavy, connecting the film to his work 'The Bride Stripped Bare by the Bachelors, Even'. This approach encourages viewers to look deeper than the surface of wedding imagery and explore hidden meanings.