Saul Levine Movies

  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    71997HD

    Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1991
    Departure

    Departure

    Departure

    01991HD

    DEPARTURE is a film that was shot in 1976-77 during a year when I lost my job due to both cutbacks at the campus at which I taught and my involvement...

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

    A (possible) trip around the world in super 8

    A (possible) trip around the world in super 8

    02021HD

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

    A (possible) trip around the world in super 8
  • 1974
    Cartoons: Before the Fact

    Cartoons: Before the Fact

    Cartoons: Before the Fact

    101974HD

    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...

    Cartoons: Before the Fact
  • 1988
    Submission

    Submission

    Submission

    01988HD

    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...

    Submission
  • 1972
    Note Chicago Reds and Blues

    Note Chicago Reds and Blues

    Note Chicago Reds and Blues

    01972HD

    Concerned with the relation of a word to what we hear or see in our mind when we see it. How this relates to film and color.

    Note Chicago Reds and Blues
  • 2018
    Dreaming In The Dark

    Dreaming In The Dark

    Dreaming In The Dark

    02018HD

    For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema’s capacity to transform...

    Dreaming In The Dark
  • 1973
    The Big Stick / An Old Reel

    The Big Stick / An Old Reel

    The Big Stick / An Old Reel

    01973HD

    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...

    The Big Stick / An Old Reel
  • 1967
    Tear/Or

    Tear/Or

    Tear/Or

    01967HD

    "Seeing at a distance through the burning silk may the violence grow between their eyes in heaven." – Erik Kiviat

    Tear/Or
  • 1970
    Work

    Work

    Work

    01970HD

    Work is part of a series of works by Pelle Lowe and Saul Levine in different media that reflect on Manet's Olympia and its critical reception.

    Work
  • 2014
    Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump

    Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump

    Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump

    02014HD

    Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump
  • 2004
    Light Licks: By the Waters of Babylon: Jamming

    Light Licks: By the Waters of Babylon: Jamming

    Light Licks: By the Waters of Babylon: Jamming

    02004HD

    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...

    Light Licks: By the Waters of Babylon: Jamming
  • 1975
    Film Notebook: Part 1 (For Saul)

    Film Notebook: Part 1 (For Saul)

    Film Notebook: Part 1 (For Saul)

    01975HD

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

    Film Notebook: Part 1 (For Saul)
  • 1984
    Shmateh III

    Shmateh III

    Shmateh III

    01984HD

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

    Shmateh III
  • 1992
    Spun

    Spun

    Spun

    01992HD

    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...

    Spun
  • 1976
    Notes of an Early Fall

    Notes of an Early Fall

    Notes of an Early Fall

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    Made in Binghamton in 1976 - a warped record constructed out of visits to the zoo, relatives and various locations. Appearances by obsessive birds,...

    Notes of an Early Fall
  • 2015
    Light Licks: Pardes: Night Time is the Right Time

    Light Licks: Pardes: Night Time is the Right Time

    Light Licks: Pardes: Night Time is the Right Time

    02015HD

    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...

    Light Licks: Pardes: Night Time is the Right Time
  • 2011
    Light Licks: By the Waters of Babylon: I Want to Paint It Black

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

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

    02011HD

    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...

    Light Licks: By the Waters of Babylon: I Want to Paint It Black
  • 1989
    Notes After Long Silence

    Notes After Long Silence

    Notes After Long Silence

    01989HD

    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...

    Notes After Long Silence
  • 1996
    Rolls and Stumbles with Cherries in the Middle

    Rolls and Stumbles with Cherries in the Middle

    Rolls and Stumbles with Cherries in the Middle

    01996HD

    Impersonations for the camera by Alison Tsoi, Nina Fonoroff, and Saul Levine. Additional camera by Silvia Gruner. (For Pelle Lowe and Luther Price)

    Rolls and Stumbles with Cherries in the Middle