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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2001
    Dream Story

    Dream Story

    Dream Story

    02001HD

    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...

    Dream Story
  • 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
  • 1971
    Untitled

    Untitled

    Untitled

    01971HD

    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 &...

    Untitled
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2018
    Caw Notes

    Caw Notes

    Caw Notes

    02018HD

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

    Caw Notes
  • 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
  • 2000
    Yoren

    Yoren

    Yoren

    02000HD

    Yoren
  • 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
  • 1971
    Untitled

    Untitled

    Untitled

    01971HD

    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 &...

    Untitled
  • 2010
    DRIVEN (Boston After Dark) Series: ED CHILDS

    DRIVEN (Boston After Dark) Series: ED CHILDS

    DRIVEN (Boston After Dark) Series: ED CHILDS

    02010HD

    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...

    DRIVEN (Boston After Dark) Series: ED CHILDS
  • 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)
  • 2000
    Kibitzer

    Kibitzer

    Kibitzer

    02000HD

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

    Kibitzer
  • 1984
    Shmateh III

    Shmateh III

    Shmateh III

    01984HD

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

    Shmateh III
  • 1995
    Light Hit

    Light Hit

    Light Hit

    01995HD

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

    Light Hit