Joshua Gen Solondz is an artist working in moving image, sound, and performance. Solondz uses abstraction to explore personal, national, and generational trauma and trance, often overwhelming or overloading the senses as well as the limits of the physical mediums.
He’s screened in a variety of festivals including Images, Toronto International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Onion City, Black Maria, Portland International, Milwaukee Underground, CAAMFest, San Diego Asian Film Festival, Chicago Underground, Locarno, Mar del Plata, FIC Valdivia, Viennale, and New York Film Festival. These run the gamut of handmade/hand-processed film, video synthesizers, modular synthesizers, handmade instruments, glitch, and bodily performance. The work is often described as loud, psychedelic, and unnerving.
While at MacDowell in 2019, he wrote the first draft of his screenplay for his film Auspicious Nose and shot and developed performances for a forthcoming for 8mm film project that is somewhat about tinnitus, sex, and death. He also recorded the soundtrack for his film about the Hong Kong Happy Valley race track, which was shot during his residency at Speculative Place in Hong Kong. In 2025, Solondz worked on their next collage film for his Dorian cycle, recorded audio for his Auspicious Nose project, and processed/edited footage for his UNLOVED project.
