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.
Saul Levine Biography / Wiki
| Name | Saul Levine |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Date of Birth | |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 0 |
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Saul Levine Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Submission | Himself | 1988-01-01 | 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 … |
| Film Notebook: Part 1 (For Saul) | Himself | 1975-01-01 | Film Notebook Part 1 from 1975 is a beautiful collection of daily fragments which Keller shot from her life the way one would write in a journal. She … |
| Dream Story | 2001-01-01 | 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,… | |
| Later, Later, Dutch Master, Later | 1991-01-01 | Conceived, performed and edited by Saul Levine. Camera by Pelle Lowe. The title says it all. “A film in the old style.” — Bill Brand… | |
| Departure | 1991-01-01 | 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 … | |
| Cartoons: Before the Fact | Himself | 1974-01-01 | 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 … |
| Rolls and Stumbles with Cherries in the Middle | 1996-01-01 | Impersonations for the camera by Alison Tsoi, Nina Fonoroff, and Saul Levine. Additional camera by Silvia Gruner. (For Pelle Lowe and Luther Price)… | |
| A (possible) trip around the world in super 8 | 2021-04-21 | A brief documentary focused on the history of experimental Super 8mm filmmaking. Prominent figures of the “s8” boom of the 1970s discuss their work an… | |
Saul Levine Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Note to Pati | Director | 1969-01-01 | Something of an aesthetic convergence between the diaristic autobiographies and quotidian images of Jonas Mekas (as illustrated in his Diaries, Notes … |
| Bopping the Great Wall of China Blue | Director | 1979-01-02 | Directed by Saul Levine…. |
| Breaking Time part 1 | Director | 1976-01-02 | Directed by Saul Levine…. |
| Notes of an Early Fall | Director | 1976-01-02 | Made in Binghamton in 1976 – a warped record constructed out of visits to the zoo, relatives and various locations. Appearances by obsessive birds, ca… |
| Submission | Director | 1988-01-01 | 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 … |
| On the Spot | Director | 1973-01-01 | 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 … |
| Note to Erik | Director | 1968-01-01 | “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 bu… |
| Star Film | Director | 1969-01-01 | STAR FILM stars a hand-made emulsion…. |
| Note to Colleen | Director | 1974-01-01 | 1974 (R8, 7m)… |
| Twilight Portrayal: Sheryl Kaye | Director | 1978-01-01 | At twilight in Binghamton, two filmmakers exchange portraits…. |
| Nearsight | Director | 1978-01-01 | “Afternoon idyll with Nancy Frumkin.”… |
| Rambling Notes | Director | 1977-01-01 | 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. Reflectio… |
| Light Licks: By the Waters of Babylon: I Want to Paint It Black | Director | 2011-09-19 | 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 fram… |
| Light Licks: By the Waters of Babylon: In the Hour of the Angels | Director | 2004-05-09 | 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 fram… |
| Lost Note | Director | 1969-08-18 | Saul Levine began Lost Note as a love poem to his wife but before he finished the film everything had changed. This film is all that was left – 68/6… |
| Light Licks: Daily Camera | Director | 2011-05-09 | 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 fram… |
| Light Licks: By the Waters of Babylon: Jamming | Director | 2004-05-09 | 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 fram… |
| Light Licks: By the Waters of Babylon: This May Be The Last Time | Director | 2011-05-09 | 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 fram… |
| Notes After Long Silence | Director | 1989-01-01 | 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 presence… |
| Dream Story | Director | 2001-01-01 | 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,… |
| Falling Notes Unleaving | Director | 2013-01-01 | “FALLING NOTES UNLEAVING is made from footage gathered in the fall of 2012 and edited in early 2013. Anne Charlotte Robertson, friend and fellow Super… |
| New Left Note | Director | 1982-01-01 | 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 m… |
| The Big Stick / An Old Reel | Director | 1973-01-01 | 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 d… |
| Note to Poli | Director | 1983-01-01 | NOTE TO POLI is, in the words of his student and fellow experimental filmmaker Marjorie Keller, “a note to the filmmaker Poli Marichal ‘about’ penetra… |
| Rolls and Stumbles with Cherries in the Middle | Director | 1996-01-01 | Impersonations for the camera by Alison Tsoi, Nina Fonoroff, and Saul Levine. Additional camera by Silvia Gruner. (For Pelle Lowe and Luther Price)… |
| Later, Later, Dutch Master, Later | Director | 1991-01-01 | Conceived, performed and edited by Saul Levine. Camera by Pelle Lowe. The title says it all. “A film in the old style.” — Bill Brand… |
| Note One | Director | 1968-01-01 | 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 p… |
| Shmateh III | Director | 1984-01-01 | “A portrait of Picasso young and old, sung by the wind.” – Saul… |
| Spun | Director | 1992-01-01 | A portrait of Amanda Katz (Posner) spinning, weaving and talking. A film about story telling rather than one that tells a story. The VHS copy of this … |
| Ready-Made | Director | 1992-01-01 | 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 reflec… |
| Light Licks: Pardes: Night Time is the Right Time | Director | 2015-01-01 | 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 fram… |
| As Is Was | Director | 1995-01-01 | This film was shot the same weekend as Z (Zee Not Zed), when Stan Brakhage was visiting University of Rhode Island, where Marjorie Keller was teaching… |
| Preview | Director | 1989-01-01 | Camera: Sylvia Gruner & Pelle Lowe… |
| Z (Zee Not Zed) | Director | 1993-01-01 | Stan Brakhage with a movie camera. Winter seascapes…. |
| A Few Tunes Going Out: Groove to Groove | Director | 1984-01-01 | “[GROOVE TO GROOVE] continues this kind of portraiture, concentrating on Mai Cramer and Levine, and develops the ‘bi-lingual’ paradigm of film and m… |
| As Is Is | Director | 1991-01-01 | Kerry Laitela delivers an elegiac account of the passions and struggles of a female chameleon…. |
| Whole Note | Director | 2000-01-01 | A film by Saul Levine… |
| A Few Tunes Going Out: A Brennen Soll Columbus N Medina | Director | 1984-01-01 | A FEW TUNES GOING OUT series: part 3… |
| Light Hit | Director | 1995-01-01 | Textures of some Polaroid pictures found buried under snow. Leather jacket as pool for them to be hit (by light)…. |
| Departure | Director | 1991-01-01 | 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 … |
| Is As Is | Director | 1991-01-01 | 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 a… |
| Unemployment Portrayal Note | Director | 1980-01-01 | A fim by Saul Levine… |
| Light Lick: Get It While You Can | Director | 2000-02-01 | 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 fram… |
| Dead Day Window Display Note | Director | 2015-01-01 | 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 … |
| Light Licks: Detour | Director | 2002-12-09 | S8mm, b&w/si, (18 fps)… |
| Light Licks: Only Sunshine | Director | 2000-12-09 | A midsummer daydream. S8mm, color/si, (18fps)… |
| Light Licks: I Saw the Light Praise the Dark | Director | 2000-12-09 | The first black and white LIGHT LICK. S8mm, b&w/si, (18fps)… |
| Toscanini’s European Sidewalk Cafe | Director | 2000-12-09 | Workers and customers at a coffee bar in a winter twilight. S8mm, b&w/si… |
| Dreams and Apparitions of Mark LePore | Director | 2007-01-01 | On 9/11/2005, Mark Lapore took his own life. I first met Mark at SUNY Binghamton in the fall of 1973, when I took my film production class. Over the y… |
| Yoren | Director | 2000-01-01 | 2000 film by Saul Levine… |
| Crescent | Director | 1993-01-01 | A conversation with Pelle Lowe… |
| Light Lick: Amen | Director | 2017-08-04 | 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 mad… |
| Light Lick: Love Stain | Director | 2018-04-20 | … |
| Entry Note | Director | 2018-05-25 | A small apocalypse prophecy on the threshold of disaster world/home… |
| Note to Tetsua | Director | 2018-06-09 | Moon flight loud silence soft dark hard light a Ray o gram made with a camera out of sight… |
| Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump | Director | 2014-01-01 | … |
| Light Licks: Pardes: Wild Blue Yonder | Director | 2015-01-01 | … |
| Kibitzer | Director | 2000-01-01 | … |
| 911-Serra’s Morning | Director | 2001-01-01 | … |
| Off Selexa | Director | 2001-01-01 | … |
| Light Licks: Pardes: Counting Flowers on the Wall | Director | 2018-05-05 | Wild flowers, morning glories, an urban jungle an eden for a petite Tyger…. |
| Light Lick: Born Under a Bad Sign | Director | 2002-01-01 | Super 8mm / color / silent / 18fps… |
| Light Lick: Az Sent (Amazing Grace) | Director | 2000-01-01 | Harvard square stroll, talking to myself. Super 8mm / color / silent / 18fps… |
| Melts Into Air | Director | 2000-04-01 | 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… |
| All That’s Solid | Director | 2000-04-01 | 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… |
| August Moon and Sea | Director | 1997-01-01 | A portrait of Nancy Golden, a summer evening and Nancy photographing rocks at Singing Beach. 16mm,18fps / Super 8mm, 18fps… |
| Saul’s Scarf | Director | 1967-07-07 | Free for benefits and free showings. “we turning in side take it without them it closes Castles color You must pass through it before it closes open u… |
| Mortgage on My Body | Director | 1983-08-04 | Stations throughout Connecticut and even New York City. Riding around with my father and back to the gas station…. |
| Caw Notes | Director | 2018-05-05 | As the crow flies, as the crow cries, as the crow alites CAWS… |
| Note Chicago Reds and Blues | Director | 1972-01-01 | 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…. |
| On Another Note | Director | 2019-02-14 | Notes on chance, readymades, and time. Shot at Massart graduation 1997 and Boston 4th of July97. Some of the people appearing are Barbara Bosworth, St… |
| Dreaming In The Dark | Director | 2018-01-04 | For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema’s capacity to transform relat… |
| Light Licks Series | Director | 2018-01-01 | 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 fram… |
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