Saul Levine

Saul Levine Trailers

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Saul Levine, born in New Haven Connecticut, is a maker and advocate of avant-garde film and more recently video. He is currently a professor at MassArt where he has taught for over 30 years and programmed the longstanding MassArt Film Society. His work has been screened nationally and worldwide, most recently in Ontario, MOMA (NYC), Lima and Prague. He is based in Boston and hardly leaves town.

Most Popular Saul Levine Trailers

Total trailers found: 96

Z (Zee Not Zed) Trailer (1993)

01 January 1993

Stan Brakhage with a movie camera. Winter seascapes.

Notes of an Early Fall Trailer (1976)

02 January 1976

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

Departure Trailer (1991)

01 January 1991

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 in the movement against them.

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

01 January 2014

Note Chicago Reds and Blues Trailer (1972)

01 January 1972

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.

Light Lick: Amen Trailer (2017)

04 August 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.

Submission Trailer (1988)

01 January 1988

A confrontational rant addressed to the judges of the films entered in a Super 8 competition at No Exit.

Cartoons: Before the Fact Trailer (1974)

01 January 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.

Note One Trailer (1968)

01 January 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.

The Big Stick / An Old Reel Trailer (1973)

01 January 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.

Is As Is Trailer (1991)

01 January 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.

On Another Note Trailer (2019)

14 February 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.

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

21 April 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.

Light Licks Series Trailer (2018)

12 April 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.

Esprit de Corps Trailer (1965)

02 August 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 and afterimage.

Lost Note Trailer (1969)

18 August 1969

Saul Levine began Lost Note as a love poem to his wife but before he finished the film everything had changed.

Hell No, No Cuts Trailer (1973)

01 January 1973

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

Shmateh III Trailer (1984)

01 January 1984

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

Rambling Notes Trailer (1977)

01 January 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.

Note to Poli Trailer (1983)

01 January 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.

Untitled Trailer (1971)

04 April 1971

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

We Demand Jobs Trailer (1971)

01 January 1971

The We Demand march of 1971 was the first recorded political action taken by queer activists in Canada.

Nearsight Trailer (1978)

01 January 1978

"Afternoon idyll with Nancy Frumkin."

Dreaming In The Dark Trailer (2018)

04 January 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 embodiment.

Star Film Trailer (1969)

01 January 1969

STAR FILM stars a hand-made emulsion.

Light Licks: Daily Camera Trailer (2011)

09 May 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 of individual frames) with life itself.

DRIVEN (Boston After Dark) Series: LANA CAPLAN Trailer (2013)

01 January 2013

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 shoot.

Spun Trailer (1992)

01 January 1992

A portrait of Amanda Katz (Posner) spinning, weaving and talking. A film about story telling rather than one that tells a story.

Toscanini's European Sidewalk Cafe Trailer (2000)

09 December 2000

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

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

09 May 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.

Dream Story Trailer (2001)

01 January 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.

Ready-Made Trailer (1992)

01 January 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, imperialism, the Paris Commune, sex, drugs and rock roll, ect.

Light Licks: Only Sunshine Trailer (2000)

09 December 2000

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

Caw Notes Trailer (2018)

05 May 2018

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

Note to Colleen Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

Note to Erik Trailer (1968)

01 January 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.

911-Serra's Morning Trailer (2001)

01 January 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.

Note to Pati Trailer (1969)

01 January 1969

Something of an aesthetic convergence between the diaristic autobiographies and quotidian images of Jonas Mekas (as illustrated in his Diaries, Notes and Sketches chronicles) and the hand crafted dissonance and material violence of Stan Brakhage, “Note to Pati” presents a seemingly typical winter scene – the day after a snow storm as a suburban neighborhood digs out from under the accumulation and children make the most of an unexpected day off from school by playing in their winter wonderland.

Raps and Chants, Part I Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

John Broderick recounts a bad LSD trip.

Light Licks: Detour Trailer (2002)

09 December 2002

Twilight Portrayal: Sheryl Kaye Trailer (1978)

01 January 1978

At twilight in Binghamton, two filmmakers exchange portraits.

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

19 September 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.

All That's Solid Trailer (2000)

01 April 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.

Off Selexa Trailer (2001)

01 January 2001

Karine Albano recounts her experience with an antidepressant called Selexa.

Shmateh IV & Scrape Trailer (1986)

01 January 1986

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

Falling Notes Unleaving Trailer (2013)

02 September 2013

"FALLING NOTES UNLEAVING is made from footage gathered in the fall of 2012 and edited in early 2013. Anne Charlotte Robertson, friend and fellow Super8 filmmaker, died.

Kibitzer Trailer (2000)

01 January 2000

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

Later, Later, Dutch Master, Later Trailer (1991)

01 January 1991

A film in the old style.

Light Licks: Pardes: Wild Blue Yonder Trailer (2015)

01 January 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.

On the Spot Trailer (1973)

01 January 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 moon constructs of stasis and change.

Dead Day Window Display Note Trailer (2015)

03 November 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.

August Moon and Sea Trailer (1997)

01 January 1997

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

Entry Note Trailer (2018)

25 May 2018

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

DRIVEN (Boston After Dark) Series: MARIA SOSA Trailer (2008)

01 January 2008

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 shoot.

DRIVEN (Boston After Dark) Series: JOE GIBBONS Trailer (2002)

01 January 2002

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.

As Is Is Trailer (1991)

01 January 1991

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

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

01 January 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 Lick: Az Sent (Amazing Grace) Trailer (2000)

01 January 2000

Harvard square stroll, talking to myself.

DRIVEN (Boston After Dark) Series: ASMA KAZMI Trailer (2005)

01 January 2005

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 shoot.

DRIVEN (Boston After Dark) Series: ED CHILDS Trailer (2010)

01 January 2010

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 shoot.