An Evening with Saul Levine
dal 28/10/2012 al 28/10/2012
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28/10/2012
An Evening with Saul Levine
The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York
Special presentation: vital aspect of Levine's work across four decades and premiere of Light Licks
For nearly 50 years, Saul Levine (American, b. 1943) has made experimental films that are distinguished by their machine-gun rhythms, political urgencies, and moments of cloistered, even blissful, family settings. Levine's is a cinema of violent juxtaposition-Charlie Chaplin hotly pursued and Walter Cronkite intoning the grim news of the day; Vietnam War paratroopers and B.B. King playing the blues; street protests, police roundups, and workers on the dole. Tracing a vital aspect of Levine's work across four decades - what P. Adams Sitney has identified as "his incessant, chaotic outpouring of political energy" - this special co-presentation of Modern Mondays and To Save and Project: The 10th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation features the New York premiere of Light Licks: By the Waters of Babylon: This May Be the Last Time (2011), Levine's meditation on the play of winter light on Boston's Charles River. Inspired by jazz improvisation, Jewish mysticism, visual punning, and poetic meter, as well as the films of Stan Brakhage and Sergei Eisenstein, Levine's editing ricochets between shock montage and more tender, abstract passages. Through his use of repetition, superimposition, and fragmentation; accidents of exposure, and raw, jagged splicing, Levine creates jarring collisions among television news broadcasts, slapstick comedies, lyrical contemplations of the natural world, and intimate scenes of domesticity and eroticism. Program approx. 80 min.