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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1968
    Note One

    Note One

    Note One

    01968HD

    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...

    Note One
  • 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
  • 2015
    Light Licks: Pardes: Wild Blue Yonder

    Light Licks: Pardes: Wild Blue Yonder

    Light Licks: Pardes: Wild Blue Yonder

    02015HD

    "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: Wild Blue Yonder
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2001
    911-Serra's Morning

    911-Serra's Morning

    911-Serra's Morning

    02001HD

    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...

    911-Serra's Morning
  • 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
  • 2011
    Light Licks: Daily Camera

    Light Licks: Daily Camera

    Light Licks: Daily Camera

    02011HD

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

    Light Licks: Daily Camera
  • 1976
    Breaking Time part 1

    Breaking Time part 1

    Breaking Time part 1

    01976HD

    Breaking Time part 1
  • 1989
    Preview

    Preview

    Preview

    01989HD

    Preview