Saul Levine

On Another Note (2019)

Notes on chance, readymades, and time. Shot at Massart graduation 1997 and Boston 4th of July97. Some of the people appearing are Barbara Bosworth, Stephen Tourlentes, Roy Decarava. Edited shortly thereafter, printed DECEMBER2018 released 2019. ...

Note to Tetsua (2018)

Moon flight loud silence soft dark hard light a Ray o gram made with a camera out of sight. ...

Entry Note (2018)

A small apocalypse prophecy on the threshold of disaster world/home. ...

Caw Notes (2018)

As the crow flies, as the crow cries, as the crow alites CAWS ...

Light Lick: Love Stain (2018)

Light Licks Series (2018)

LIGHT LICKS are a series of films, which are made frame by frame often by flooding the camera with enough light to spill beyond the gate into the frame left unexposed. LIGHT LICKS are ecstatic flicker films inspired by jazz and mystic visionary practice. ...

Dreaming In The Dark (2018)

For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema's capacity to transform relationships between the body and the camera to propose works that will engage with both perception and embodime ...

Light Lick: Amen (2017)

A stark portrait of my father at daily morning prayers to which I respond, AMEN. Light Licks are a series of films I began in 1999. The films are made frame by frame, often by flooding the camera with enough light to spill beyond the gate into the frame l ...

Dead Day Window Display Note (2015)

Every fall a store called NOMAD in Cambridge, on Mass Av,e puts up a window display of Mexican Day of the Dead pieces. My birthday is November, 3, so I am hyper aware of the death/resurrection fall celebration --. this is my sidewalk pedestrian note. ...

Light Licks: Pardes: Night Time is the Right Time (2015)

LIGHT LICKS are a series of films, which are made frame by frame often by flooding the camera with enough light to spill beyond the gate into the frame left unexposed. LIGHT LICKS are ecstatic flicker films inspired by jazz and mystic visionary practice. P ...

Light Licks: Pardes: Wild Blue Yonder (2015)

"Wild Blue Yonder" was the song of the army corps in which Saul Levine's uncle and father served when he was born in 1943. ...

Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump (2014)

Light Licks: By the Waters of Babylon: I Want to Paint It Black (2011)

I spent the week of thanksgiving 2010 in Prague; I had never been to Europe before and as a Jew born in the 2nd World War, I had a strong association of central Europe with the Holocaust. I found Prague to be an extremely charming and beautiful city, an ar ...

Light Licks: By the Waters of Babylon: This May Be The Last Time (2011)

This film was shot right before Dwayne's stopped processing Kodachrome, and the last time I shot Kodachrome for a LIGHT LICK. It was right after Thanksgiving weekend and the light is very much late November right before the Winter Solstice. Existence equal ...

Light Licks: Daily Camera (2011)

DAILY CAMERA is on one level a flickering, ecstatic, and lyrical portrait of Boulder, Colorado. On a deeper level, it is yet another exquisite manifestation of Levine's quest to merge the fundamental qualities of cinema (light and the arbitrary projection ...

Dreams and Apparitions of Mark LePore (2007)

On 9/11/2005, Mark Lapore took his own life. I first met Mark at SUNY Binghamton in the fall of 1973, when I took my film production class. Over the years we became friends and colleagues, film/video makers and teachers. In the aftermath of his death, I de ...

Light Licks: By the Waters of Babylon: Jamming (2004)

LIGHT LICKS are a series of films, which are made frame by frame often by flooding the camera with enough light to spill beyond the gate into the frame left unexposed. LIGHT LICKS are ecstatic flicker films inspired by jazz and mystic visionary practice. ...

Light Licks: By the Waters of Babylon: In the Hour of the Angels (2004)

LIGHT LICKS are a series of films, which are made frame by frame often by flooding the camera with enough light to spill beyond the gate into the frame left unexposed. LIGHT LICKS are ecstatic flicker films inspired by jazz and mystic visionary practice. ...

Light Licks: Detour (2002)

S8mm, b&w/si, (18 fps) ...

Light Lick: Born Under a Bad Sign (2002)

Dream Story (2001)

A short video in which Levine, facing a crescent moon, remembers Marjorie Keller telling a dream she had with her female friend, also a film director, who had died. ...

911-Serra's Morning (2001)

Director of the Film-makers Coop, M.M. Serra, recollects her morning on September 11, 2001. The Coop is a few blocks from the New York Worlds Trade Center. The tape was shot a month after, while we were waiting to have lunch together. ...

Off Selexa (2001)

Karine Albano recounts her experience with an antidepressant called Selexa. ...

Light Licks: I Saw the Light Praise the Dark (2000)

The first black and white LIGHT LICK. ...

Light Licks: Only Sunshine (2000)

A midsummer daydream. ...

Toscanini's European Sidewalk Cafe (2000)

Workers and customers at a coffee bar in a winter twilight. ...

All That's Solid (2000)

ALL THAT'S SOLID (and) MELTS INTO AIR are each separate films shot at an exhibition of the urban landscape artist Tyree Suyton in Cambridge at Harvard. I was struck by the redemptive critical and visionary character of his work which struck me as similar t ...

Whole Note (2000)

A film by Saul Levine ...

Yoren (2000)

2000 film by Saul Levine ...

Kibitzer (2000)

Fixed shot of Saul's father, Julius Levine, playing Scrabble with his housekeeper. ...

Light Lick: Az Sent (Amazing Grace) (2000)

Harvard square stroll, talking to myself. ...

August Moon and Sea (1997)

A portrait of Nancy Golden, a summer evening and Nancy photographing rocks at Singing Beach. ...

Rolls and Stumbles with Cherries in the Middle (1996)

Impersonations for the camera by Alison Tsoi, Nina Fonoroff, and Saul Levine. Additional camera by Silvia Gruner. ...

Light Hit (1995)

Textures of some Polaroid pictures found buried under snow. Leather jacket as pool for them to be hit (by light). ...

As Is Was (1995)

This film was shot the same weekend as Z (Zee Not Zed), when Stan Brakhage was visiting University of Rhode Island, where Marjorie Keller was teaching at the time. They get some coffee, then go for a walk on a beach in an old whaling harbor. ...

Z (Zee Not Zed) (1993)

Stan Brakhage with a movie camera. Winter seascapes. ...

Crescent (1993)

A conversation with Pelle Lowe. ...

Spun (1992)

A portrait of Amanda Katz (Posner) spinning, weaving and talking. A film about story telling rather than one that tells a story. The VHS copy of this tape was one of the most rented tapes in the local film section of the Brookline Videosmith. ...

Ready-Made (1992)

A film made by Pelle Lowe and myself, Ready-Made is a single work in itself, and also exists as part of a series of works that Pelle and I made reflecting on Manet's painting OLYMPIA, including it's reception, it's relationship to painting, sex work, imper ...

Later, Later, Dutch Master, Later (1991)

A film in the old style. ...

As Is Is (1991)

Kerry Laitela delivers an elegiac account of the passions and struggles of a female chameleon. ...

Is As Is (1991)

A portrait of a mother with her arms full in the backyard bathing her twin babies as the early spring light sings and dances. Later the father cooks a fish. Marjorie Keller is the mother. ...

Notes After Long Silence (1989)

Levine's grammar is set up to join media images without hiding the seams; media images of race and sex, love and violence, work and play, and presence and memory blend into a song of sorts of our time. ...

Preview (1989)

Camera: Sylvia Gruner & Pelle Lowe ...

Submission (1988)

A confrontational rant addressed to the judges of the films entered in a Super 8 competition at No Exit. Both Mark and I were surprised when not only was it shown at the festival but it generated much laughter and angry conversation. ...

Shmateh III (1984)

A portrait of Picasso young and old, sung by the wind. ...

A Few Tunes Going Out: Groove to Groove (1984)

"[GROOVE TO GROOVE] continues this kind of portraiture, concentrating on Mai Cramer and Levine, and develops the 'bi-lingual' paradigm of film and music. The phantasmagoria of splices becomes the lexicon for Levine's improvisational study of making film, m ...

A Few Tunes Going Out: A Brennen Soll Columbus N Medina (1984)

The third theme of the series: A Few Tunes Going Out. A collection of songs, stories, scattered and interchangeable conversations during the Memorial Day demonstration. ...

Mortgage on My Body (1983)

Stations throughout Connecticut and even New York City. Riding around with my father and back to the gas station. ...

Note to Poli (1983)

NOTE TO POLI is, in the words of his student and fellow experimental filmmaker Marjorie Keller, "a note to the filmmaker Poli Marichal 'about' penetration." P. Adams Sitney observed that the film revealed "the visionary power of sexuality for the filmmaker ...

New Left Note (1982)

As editor of "New Left Notes", the newspaper of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Saul Levine was at the center of multiple radical political movements. Filming from 1968-1982, he employs a rapid fire editing style to create a frenetic, kaleidoscopi ...

Unemployment Portrayal Note (1980)

A fim by Saul Levine ...

Bopping the Great Wall of China Blue (1979)

Directed by Saul Levine. ...

Twilight Portrayal: Sheryl Kaye (1978)

At twilight in Binghamton, two filmmakers exchange portraits. ...

Nearsight (1978)

"Afternoon idyll with Nancy Frumkin. ...

Rambling Notes (1977)

I am just a rambling guy - here today, gone tomorrow. Sitting in the back of Dan's french car. French woman going to NYC for the first time. Reflections of the car - now static. Chicago as seen from Gunnar Juhansson's and Ruby Rich's apartment. N.B. Projec ...

Breaking Time part 1 (1976)

Directed by Saul Levine. ...

Notes of an Early Fall (1976)

Made in Binghamton in 1976 - a warped record constructed out of visits to the zoo, relatives and various locations. Appearances by obsessive birds, caged bears and hungry rams. "Certain shots are very evocative, such as a long shot of a group of people sit ...

Note to Colleen (1974)

1974 (R8, 7m) ...

On the Spot (1973)

Shot on a farm in Friendsville Penn. where Saul lived in a trailer with Dan Barnett; shot from the same spot over the course of several Fall weeks, a single frame study of the movements of people and livestock (horses, cows, sheep, etc); clouds sun and moo ...

The Big Stick / An Old Reel (1973)

Saul Levine spent six years (from 1967-1973) cutting up and re-editing 8mm prints of two Charlie Chaplin shorts, IN THE PARK and EASY STREET, into a dynamic yet dreamy deconstruction of physical and narrative movement. What begins with Chaplin looping arou ...

Lost Note (1969)

Saul Levine began Lost Note as a love poem to his wife but before he finished the film everything had changed. This film is all that was left – 68/69 was a period of violent transition for many. The film was formally challenging, editing footage with in- ...

Star Film (1969)

STAR FILM stars a hand-made emulsion. ...

Note to Erik (1968)

"NOTES is a series I started in 1968. NOTE TO ERIK was the second one completed but the footage goes back to 1966 when I saw the footage I loved it but didn't feel ready to deal with it. Seeing Sharon Moss again who had moved to NYC from Storrs, CT inspire ...

Note One (1968)

A study of my parents in grey and white. An evening film. My mother lights the sabbath candles, cooks, crochets, sleeps, talks to father reading the paper – we are together. This is the first completed note. ...

Saul's Scarf (1967)

Free for benefits and free showings. "we turning in side take it without them it closes Castles color You must pass through it before it closes open unstolen stop it closes castles color the before turning prism face the kiss half a beat time delay in imag ...

Esprit de Corps (1965)

"Starring Saul Levine, with some of his camerawork. First part: Birth from the water; Second: in the City with Janet, mostly in darkness; third: a bridge of scratches and flashing splices; ending with his dance on the beach, the world upside down, sunset a ...

Salt of the Sea (1965)

Founded under water ... all at sea ... made at land. ...

A (possible) trip around the world in super 8 (2021)

A brief documentary focused on the history of experimental Super 8mm filmmaking. Prominent figures of the "s8" boom of the 1970s discuss their work and their first encounters with the medium. ...

Dream Story (2001)

A short video in which Levine, facing a crescent moon, remembers Marjorie Keller telling a dream she had with her female friend, also a film director, who had died. ...

Rolls and Stumbles with Cherries in the Middle (1996)

Impersonations for the camera by Alison Tsoi, Nina Fonoroff, and Saul Levine. Additional camera by Silvia Gruner. ...

Later, Later, Dutch Master, Later (1991)

A film in the old style. ...

Submission (1988)

A confrontational rant addressed to the judges of the films entered in a Super 8 competition at No Exit. Both Mark and I were surprised when not only was it shown at the festival but it generated much laughter and angry conversation. ...

Film Notebook: Part 1 (For Saul) (1975)

"A journal of change in pattern of living and seeing as determined by an often misfunctioning but faithful camera."-M. ...

Cartoons: Before the Fact (1974)

Made at S.U.N.Y. at Binghamton as a class exercise, filmmaker Saul Levine performs with students who each try to mimic his previously recorded phrase and then try to imitate each other imitating the recording. ...

Esprit de Corps (1965)

"Starring Saul Levine, with some of his camerawork. First part: Birth from the water; Second: in the City with Janet, mostly in darkness; third: a bridge of scratches and flashing splices; ending with his dance on the beach, the world upside down, sunset a ...