Saul Levine Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1993
    Z (Zee Not Zed)

    Z (Zee Not Zed)

    Z (Zee Not Zed)

    01993HD

    Stan Brakhage with a movie camera. Winter seascapes.

    Z (Zee Not Zed)
  • 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
  • 1991
    Is As Is

    Is As Is

    Is As Is

    01991HD

    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...

    Is As Is
  • 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
  • 2005
    DRIVEN (Boston After Dark) Series: ASMA KAZMI

    DRIVEN (Boston After Dark) Series: ASMA KAZMI

    DRIVEN (Boston After Dark) Series: ASMA KAZMI

    02005HD

    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: ASMA KAZMI
  • 2000
    Toscanini's European Sidewalk Cafe

    Toscanini's European Sidewalk Cafe

    Toscanini's European Sidewalk Cafe

    02000HD

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

    Toscanini's European Sidewalk Cafe
  • 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
  • 1976
    Breaking Time part 1

    Breaking Time part 1

    Breaking Time part 1

    01976HD

    Breaking Time part 1
  • 2013
    DRIVEN (Boston After Dark) Series: LANA CAPLAN

    DRIVEN (Boston After Dark) Series: LANA CAPLAN

    DRIVEN (Boston After Dark) Series: LANA CAPLAN

    02013HD

    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: LANA CAPLAN
  • 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
  • 1973
    Hell No, No Cuts

    Hell No, No Cuts

    Hell No, No Cuts

    01973HD

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

    Hell No, No Cuts
  • 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
  • 1981
    Raps and Chants, Part I

    Raps and Chants, Part I

    Raps and Chants, Part I

    01981HD

    John Broderick recounts a bad LSD trip.

    Raps and Chants, Part I
  • 1976
    Notes of an Early Fall

    Notes of an Early Fall

    Notes of an Early Fall

    6.31976HD

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

    Notes of an Early Fall