MassArt Film Society: Saul Levine
Breaking Time - A Portrayal In 4 Parts And Three Reels
Wednesday, August 18th, 20h, 4$
Massachusetts College of Art, Film Department
Screening room 1. 621 Huntington Ave. Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA

In the fall of 1977, I returned to the New Haven area to live with my parents and aunts after being unemployed for a year. I resumed working in my father's gas station and small used-car lot as both a service attendant and driver of cars between New York and New Haven. BREAKING TIME is a four-part work made up of four separate films on three reels. Each film is a complete work itself and may be shown separately. I feel that together they make a different work.

The return to my home allowed me to look back on the working people and places of my childhood with the eyes of an adult. It was a continual struggle to make a past present and I was only able to complete [the series] after I left the area. The work also reflects my experiences in the past working as a traffic surveyor and the automotive and petroleum base of the culture I grew up in. - Saul Levine

Programme:

- Part 1: Mortgage on My Body (1978-1983)
Stations throughout Connecticut and even New York City. Riding around with my father and back to the gas station.

- Part 2: Arrested (1977-1983)
Mainly a portrayal of my father, the blizzard of 1978 and the summer and spring.

- Parts 3 and 4: Lien on My Soul and Portrait Not a Dream
Lien on My Soul is a cityscape of New Haven shot from an East Rock park. Includes the 4th of July, a wedding, lovers, bikers, kids - an ecological meditation.
Portrait Not a Dream: My mother's cry of rage.

- Whole Note
A portrait of my father in the last days of his life. "Nothing is as whole as a broken heart" - Hassidic saying.

- August Moon And See
A portrait of Nancy Golden, a summer evening and Nancy photographing rocks at Singing Bea

- Light Lick Daily Camera 2010
Light lick shot mainly in Boulder Colorado mountain high