![]() ![]() “Seldom seen in the decades since its making, BREAKING TIME is perhaps Saul Levine’s Regular 8mm magnum opus. Lumia Lightsmith’s description of the show follows: ![]() The screening focuses on 3 works from Levine’s extensive filmography: NOTE ONE (1968), the first film from his personal portrait series “NOTES” consisting of a black and white and superimposed sequences of his parents BREAKING TIME: Parts 1-4 (1977-1983), a film looking back from an adult perspective at the people and places of the artist’s childhood, screened last in New York at the Collective for Living Cinema in the 1980s and LIGHT LICK: AMEN (2017), a recent addition to Levine’s ongoing LIGHT LICK series of films “made frame by frame by flooding the camera with enough light to spill beyond the gate into frames left unexposed.” Microscope Gallery is pleased to welcome to the gallery Boston-based filmmaker Saul Levine for an evening of films originally shot by the arist on 8mm and Super 8mm, organized by Lumia Lightsmith. But the film he makes of each is the same film, the one ongoing film of the film in the making…The pleasure in this for the viewer is, of course, the combined one of voyeuristically glimpsing into the life of an artist and, for those of us familiar with his other work, encountering an old friend up to new tricks.” – Marjorie Keller ![]() “Levine has tackled many subjects as a filmmaker: love loss, war, music, the seasons, light, and loss again. Still from “LIGHT LICK: AMEN” (2017) by Saul Levine – Image courtesy of the artist ![]()
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