Naomi Levine
Acting
Biography
Naomi Levine is an American actress, artist and filmmaker. She was a friend of Jack Smith and pop artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol.
Known For
An hour-long paean to the art of the kiss featuring fourteen couples, from passionate participants to lethargic lovers, engaging in the intimate act.
Kiss
Shot during Warhol's cross-county trip to Los Angeles during his second exhibition at the Ferus - the same trip during which he filmed the footage for Elvis at Ferus. Locations included Hollywood, Malibu, Venice, Pasadena, Topanga Canyon, the Santa Monica pier and the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends, lovers, and artistic idols. Blending everyday encounters with portraits of the avant-garde art scene, it forms an epic, personal meditation on community, creativity, and the passage of time.
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Batman Dracula is a 1964 black and white American film produced and directed by Andy Warhol, without the permission of DC Comics. The film was screened only at Warhol's art exhibits. A fan of the Batman series, Warhol made the movie as a homage. Batman Dracula is considered to be the first film featuring a blatantly campy Batman. The film was thought to have been lost until scenes from it were shown at some length in the documentary Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis.
Batman Dracula
A follow-up to now legendary film Flaming Creatures. This vivid, full-color homage to B-movies is a dizzying display of camp that clearly affirms Smith’s role as the driving force behind underground cinema and performance art of the post-war era. The director was known to constantly re-edit the film, often during screenings as it was still unspooling from the projector.
Normal Love
The couch at Andy Warhol's Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In Couch, visitors to the Factory were invited to "perform" on camera, seated on the old couch. Their many acts-both lascivious and mundane-are documented in a film that has come to be regarded as one of the most notorious of Warhol's early works. Across the course of the film we encounter such figures as poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, the writer Jack Kerouac, and perennial New York figure Taylor Mead.
Couch
Documents various excursions and gatherings at the Warhol Factory: night-time footage of New Jersey highways, a friend’s wild party complete with live band and some very drunken young men, Warhol and his Silver Cloud sculptures, and a train trip.
Trips and Parties
A rapid montage collage featuring Jack Smith and a Warholian kiss.
Jeremelu
Naomi Levine and Rufus Collins kiss.
Naomi and Rufus Kiss
A film by Naomi Levine from 1969
London Bridges Falling Down
A film by Naomi Levine from 1971
Story of a Dot
A film by Naomi Levine from 1970
At My Mother's House
Naomi Levine film from 1968
Prismatic
A film by Naomi Levine from 1969
From Zero to 16
A film by Naomi Levine from 1970
Zen, and the Art of Baseball
A film by Naomi Levine from 1969
Premoonptss
"Yes is one of cinema's most beautiful pastorales and a manifesto of a desperately romantic soul" --Jonas Mekas
Yes
The first part of Aspects of a Hill by Naomi Levine
Aspects of a Hill, Part I: The Periphery
The second part of Aspects of a Hill by Naomi Levine
Aspects of a Hill, Part II: The Grass
A film by Naomi Levine from 1968