Saul Levine Movies

  • 1988
    Submission

    Submission

    Submission

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    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
  • 1986
    Shmateh IV & Scrape

    Shmateh IV & Scrape

    Shmateh IV & Scrape

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

    Shmateh IV & Scrape
  • 1969
    Note to Pati

    Note to Pati

    Note to Pati

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

    Note to Pati
  • 1982
    New Left Note

    New Left Note

    New Left Note

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    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...

    New Left Note
  • 2017
    Light Lick: Amen

    Light Lick: Amen

    Light Lick: Amen

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    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...

    Light Lick: Amen
  • 2000
    Toscanini's European Sidewalk Cafe

    Toscanini's European Sidewalk Cafe

    Toscanini's European Sidewalk Cafe

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

    Toscanini's European Sidewalk Cafe
  • 2015
    Dead Day Window Display Note

    Dead Day Window Display Note

    Dead Day Window Display Note

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    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...

    Dead Day Window Display Note
  • 2000
    All That's Solid

    All That's Solid

    All That's Solid

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    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
  • 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

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    Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump
  • 2013
    Falling Notes Unleaving

    Falling Notes Unleaving

    Falling Notes Unleaving

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

    Falling Notes Unleaving
  • 1978
    Nearsight

    Nearsight

    Nearsight

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    "Afternoon idyll with Nancy Frumkin."

    Nearsight
  • 1968
    Note to Erik

    Note to Erik

    Note to Erik

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    "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...

    Note to Erik
  • 2000
    Light Licks: Only Sunshine

    Light Licks: Only Sunshine

    Light Licks: Only Sunshine

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

    Light Licks: Only Sunshine
  • 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

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    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
  • 2000
    Whole Note

    Whole Note

    Whole Note

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    Whole Note
  • 2018
    Caw Notes

    Caw Notes

    Caw Notes

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

    Caw Notes
  • 2002
    Light Licks: Detour

    Light Licks: Detour

    Light Licks: Detour

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    Light Licks: Detour
  • 2000
    Light Lick: Get It While You Can

    Light Lick: Get It While You Can

    Light Lick: Get It While You Can

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    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 Lick: Get It While You Can
  • 1973
    The Big Stick / An Old Reel

    The Big Stick / An Old Reel

    The Big Stick / An Old Reel

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    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
  • 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

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    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