Light Licks: By the Waters of Babylon: I WANT TO PAINT IT BLACK
United States
2011
12 Min
Color
English
DIR Saul Levine
New York (Views from the Avant-Garde)
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 frame left unexposed. Light Licks are ecstatic flicker films inspired by jazz and mystic visionary practice. –Saul Levine
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 30 years and programmed the longstanding MassArt Film Society. His work has been screened nationally and worldwide, most recently in Shanghai, Paris and Rotterdam. He is based in Boston and hardly leaves town. —saullevine.com