- Saul Levine in A Few Tunes Going Out: Groove to Groove
Tomorrow night at 8 PM venerated artist Saul Levine, who’s been making experimental films since the mid-1960s, will be at the Nightingale Cinema to present a career-spanning program of his work. Many of the pieces will screen from Super-8 film, a format that Levine considered his preferred medium for many years. “When Kodak stopped making Super 8-millimeter sound film, it was like having my tongue ripped out,” he wrote a few years ago, emphasizing the intensely personal nature of his imagery. In much of Levine’s work, “film’s light rhythms and shape-shifting” evoke the elusive nature of consciousness, as the filmmaker assembles impressionistic short takes into complex portraits of the people and places in his life. The short Nearsight (1977-78) uses this strategy to madly romantic effect, trading in close-ups of poet Nancy Frumkin that become increasingly intimate over the short run time—few films convey so directly the rush of first falling in love.
