Saul Levine

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...

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...

"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...

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

A film in the old style.

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...

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

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

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...

A portrait: of Saul Levine, filmmaker and one-time Italian Ice Vendor./of the film surface & depth/so by the choice of image./ of the inside &...

A portrait: of Saul Levine, filmmaker and one-time Italian Ice Vendor./of the film surface & depth/so by the choice of image./ of the inside &...

Notes on chance, readymades, and time. Shot at Massart graduation 1997 and Boston 4th of July97. Some of the people appearing are Barbara Bosworth,...

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.

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

Something of an aesthetic convergence between the diaristic autobiographies and quotidian images of Jonas Mekas (as illustrated in his Diaries, Notes...

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

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

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...

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...

"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...

STAR FILM stars a hand-made emulsion.

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...

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....

At twilight in Binghamton, two filmmakers exchange portraits.

"Afternoon idyll with Nancy Frumkin."

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...

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 –...

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 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...

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...

DAILY CAMERA is on one level a flickering, ecstatic, and lyrical portrait of Boulder, Colorado. On a deeper level, it is yet another exquisite...

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...

"FALLING NOTES UNLEAVING is made from footage gathered in the fall of 2012 and edited in early 2013. Anne Charlotte Robertson, friend and fellow...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

A film in the old style.

Stan Brakhage with a movie camera. Winter seascapes.

“[GROOVE TO GROOVE] continues this kind of portraiture, concentrating on Mai Cramer and Levine, and develops the 'bi-lingual' paradigm of film...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

NOTE TO POLI is, in the words of his student and fellow experimental filmmaker Marjorie Keller, "a note to the filmmaker Poli Marichal 'about'...

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...

RAPS AND CHANTS is also without the typical cataract of cuts. The first part is a man's monologue about a grueling LSD adventure (even the image is a...

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...

The first black and white LIGHT LICK.

A midsummer daydream. S8mm, color/si, (18fps)

Workers and customers at a coffee bar in a winter twilight. S8mm, b&w/si

A conversation with Pelle Lowe.

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...

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...

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

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

"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.

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

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...

Karine Albano recounts her experience with an antidepressant called Selexa.

"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...

Wild flowers, morning glories, an urban jungle an eden for a petite Tyger.

Harvard square stroll, talking to myself.

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

John Broderick recounts a bad LSD trip.

The We Demand march of 1971 was the first recorded political action taken by queer activists in Canada. The date of this march, August 28, 1971,...

A film made by Marjorie Keller that document a successful struggle against welfare cuts by welfare clients, workers, and their allies.

Two portraits, of Lowe and McKenna, respectively. According to Levine, he was “desperately in love” with both of them.

Portrait of artist T.J Donovan, as he recounts dreams about his grandfather. A nostalgia for films where cigarette smoke was the protagonist.

One of a series of 80 minute long tapes, shot without stopping while driving around Boston after dark with the driver talking and driving while I...

One of a series of 80 minute long tapes, shot without stopping while driving around Boston after dark with the driver talking and driving while I...

One of a series of 80 minute long tapes, shot without stopping while driving around Boston after dark with the driver talking and driving while I...

Adrianne Jorge, filmmaker, projectionist and chief of TVEYE VIDEO and I drive around Boston in 2008 talking about the changes in Boston and her work...

One of a series of 80 minute long tapes, shot without stopping while driving around Boston after dark with the driver talking and driving while I...

One of a series of 80 minute long tapes, shot without stopping while driving around Boston after dark with the driver talking and driving as I shoot.

Joe Gibbons takes us on a tour of his past in Boston reflecting on the places he lived and worked in, including bars and bookstores he frequented....

Seeing photographers Barbara Bosworth, Laura McPhee, and DeCarava. Conversation after 1991 Mass. Art graduate Mark Lapore at the end of the session...

Pedestrian reflections on ecstasy and vision.

One of a series of 80 minute long tapes, shot without stopping while driving around Boston after dark with the driver talking and driving while I...

One of a series of 80 minute long tapes, shot without stopping while driving around Boston after dark with the driver talking and driving while I...