Robert Beavers

Robert Beavers

Robert Beavers is an American experimental filmmaker best known for My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure, an epic cycle comprising 18 of his films (many later re-edited) made since 1967. Beavers’s use of shaped mattes to obscure aspects of the image and gelatine filters that produce varieties of coloured light are hallmarks of some of his films, many of which observe hand- and craftwork (including his own filmmaking). Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, Beavers attended Deerfield Academy before meeting the filmmaker Gregory J. Markopoulos in 1966. They moved to Europe in 1967 and removed their films from distribution; Beavers did not show his films in the United States again until 1996. Beavers made films in Greece, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, and Italy. His early Plan of Brussels and Winged Dialogue (1967-68/2000) are multilayered psychic explorations; From the Notebook of…(1971/1998) is set in Florence and inspired by Leonardo’s notebooks. Ruskin (1975/1997) is shot at the various sites of the titular artist/critic’s work in London, the Alps and Venice. Beavers’s only film to use intertitles, the dialogic Sotiros (1976-78/1996) marks the end of his use of filters and mattes. Wingseed(1985), The Hedge Theater (1986-90/2002), The Stoas (1991-97), and The Ground (1993-2001) dwell in pastoral environments in Italy and Greece. Beavers has produced three films outside the Hand Outstretched cycle: Pitcher of Colored Light (2007), The Suppliant (2012) (both shot in the U.S.) and Listening to the Space in My Room (2013). He lives with the German filmmaker Ute Aurand in Berlin and in Massachusetts.

  • Title: Robert Beavers
  • Popularity: 0.5
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1949-01-01
  • Place of Birth: Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
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Robert Beavers Movies

  • 2008
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    Zuoz

    Zuoz

    1 2008 HD

    Filmed in Switzerland and released as part of a triptych with A Walk, Zuoz features the filmmaker Robert Beavers skating on ice. Beavers represents...

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  • 1967
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    Eros, O Basileus

    Eros, O Basileus

    1 1967 HD

    Structured in nine tableaux each a study of a simple action or situation involving a lone, naked figure, the blind Eros, searching for fulfilment,...

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  • 2002
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    The Hedge Theater

    The Hedge Theater

    6.4 2002 HD

    Beavers shot The Hedge Theatre in Rome in the 1980s. It is an intimate film inspired by the Baroque architecture and stone carvings of Francesco...

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  • 2003
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    Early Monthly Segments

    Early Monthly Segments

    1 2003 HD

    Early Monthly Segments, filmed when Beavers was 18 and 19 years old, now forms the opening to his film cycle, "My Hand Outstretched to the Winged...

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  • 1967
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    Winged Dialogue

    Winged Dialogue

    1 1967 HD

    "Winged Dialogue details with growing clarity the desperate beauty and sexuality of the body animated by its soul, essence blindly reaching out,...

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  • 1968
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    Plan of Brussels

    Plan of Brussels

    1 1968 HD

    Shedding all traces of narrative in Plan of Brussels, Beavers filmed himself in a hotel room, both at his work desk and lying naked on the bed, while...

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  • 1997
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    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    6.3 1997 HD

    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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  • 1972
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    From the Notebook of...

    From the Notebook of...

    6.1 1972 HD

    "From the Notebook of..." was shot in Florence and takes as its point of departure Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks and Paul Valéry's essay on da...

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  • 2013
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    Listening to the Space in My Room

    Listening to the Space in My Room

    10 2013 HD

    Ostensibly a portrait of a place where the artist had resided until recently, the new film by Robert Beavers conjures not only the memory but also...

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  • 2018
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    Cape Cod

    Cape Cod

    1 2018 HD

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  • 1967
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    Jabbok

    Jabbok

    1 1967 HD

    The story of Jacob wrestling the angel at the stream called Jabbok.

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  • 2000
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    Sotiros

    Sotiros

    1 2000 HD

    Beavers distilled the 26-minute Sotiros in 1996 from an original 50-minute trilogy. Filmed in Athens and Peloponnesus in Greece as well as in...

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  • 1967
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    Jabbok

    Jabbok

    1 1967 HD

    The story of Jacob wrestling the angel at the stream called Jabbok.

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  • 1972
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    From the Notebook of...

    From the Notebook of...

    6.1 1972 HD

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  • 2013
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    Listening to the Space in My Room

    Listening to the Space in My Room

    10 2013 HD

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  • 1974
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    Ruskin

    Ruskin

    6 1974 HD

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  • 1980
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    Amor

    Amor

    5.7 1980 HD

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  • 2022
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    The Sparrow Dream

    The Sparrow Dream

    1 2022 HD

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  • 1970
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    Diminished Frame

    Diminished Frame

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2000
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    Sotiros

    Sotiros

    1 2000 HD

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  • 2003
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    Early Monthly Segments

    Early Monthly Segments

    1 2003 HD

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  • 2010
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    The Suppliant

    The Suppliant

    1 2010 HD

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  • 2003
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    Early Monthly Segments

    Early Monthly Segments

    1 2003 HD

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  • 2010
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    The Suppliant

    The Suppliant

    1 2010 HD

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  • 2003
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    Early Monthly Segments

    Early Monthly Segments

    1 2003 HD

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  • 2001
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    The Ground

    The Ground

    6 2001 HD

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  • 2002
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    The Hedge Theater

    The Hedge Theater

    6.4 2002 HD

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  • 2007
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    Pitcher of Colored Light

    Pitcher of Colored Light

    8 2007 HD

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  • 1970
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    My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure

    My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1973
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    Work Done

    Work Done

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1969
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    The Count of Days

    The Count of Days

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1967
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    On the Everyday Use of the Eyes of Death

    On the Everyday Use of the Eyes of Death

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    Winged Dialogue

    Winged Dialogue

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1971
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    Still Light

    Still Light

    1 1971 HD

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  • 2014
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    First Weeks

    First Weeks

    1 2014 HD

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  • 1968
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    Plan of Brussels

    Plan of Brussels

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1985
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    Wingseed

    Wingseed

    1 1985 HD

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  • 1983
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    Efpsychi

    Efpsychi

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1997
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    The Stoas

    The Stoas

    1 1997 HD

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  • 1967
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    Spiracle

    Spiracle

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1972
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    The Painting

    The Painting

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1970
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    Palinode

    Palinode

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2017
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    Among the Eucalyptuses

    Among the Eucalyptuses

    1 2017 HD

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  • 2013
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    Listening to the Space in My Room

    Listening to the Space in My Room

    10 2013 HD

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  • 1972
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    From the Notebook of...

    From the Notebook of...

    6.1 1972 HD

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  • 2001
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    The Ground

    The Ground

    6 2001 HD

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  • 1972
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    From the Notebook of...

    From the Notebook of...

    6.1 1972 HD

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  • 1972
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    From the Notebook of...

    From the Notebook of...

    6.1 1972 HD

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  • 2001
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    The Ground

    The Ground

    6 2001 HD

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  • 2016
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    Shared Table

    Shared Table

    1 2016 HD

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  • 2002
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    The Hedge Theater

    The Hedge Theater

    6.4 2002 HD

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  • 2013
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    Listening to the Space in My Room

    Listening to the Space in My Room

    10 2013 HD

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  • 2016
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    Shared Table

    Shared Table

    1 2016 HD

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  • 2016
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    Shared Table

    Shared Table

    1 2016 HD

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  • 2002
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    The Hedge Theater

    The Hedge Theater

    6.4 2002 HD

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  • 2010
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    The Suppliant

    The Suppliant

    1 2010 HD

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  • 2018
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    “Der Klang, die Welt…”

    “Der Klang, die Welt…”

    1 2018 HD

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  • 2024
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    Dedication: Bernice Hodges

    Dedication: Bernice Hodges

    1 2024 HD

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  • 1969
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    View

    View

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1978
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    Sotiros in the Elements

    Sotiros in the Elements

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1977
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    Sotiros Responds

    Sotiros Responds

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1978
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    Sotiros (Alone)

    Sotiros (Alone)

    1 1978 HD

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