Movies
- 1997

Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation71997HD
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....
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- 1980

AMOR
AMOR6.21980HD
AMOR is an exquisite lyric, shot in Rome and at the natural theatre of Salzburg. The recurring sounds of cutting cloth, hands clapping, hammering,...
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- 1972

The Painting
The Painting71972HD
The Painting intercuts shots of traffic navigating the old-world remnants of downtown Bern, Switzerland, with details from a 15th-century altarpiece,...
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- 2005

My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure102005HD
My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure is a film cycle by American avant-garde filmmaker Robert Beavers. It consists of...
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- 1985

Wingseed
Wingseed81985HD
This magnificent landscape, both hot and dry, is far from sterile; rather, the heat and dryness produce a distinct type of life, seen in the perfect...
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- 1972

From the Notebook of...
From the Notebook of...6.31972HD
From the Notebook of … was shot in Florence and takes as its point of departure Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks and Paul...
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- 1999

Laboratorium Anthology
Laboratorium Anthology01999HD
Scenes from the life and work at Anthology Film Archives. Much of the footage in this video was shot by Auguste Varkalis.
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- 2013

Listening to the Space in My Room
Listening to the Space in My Room8.52013HD
A portrait of a recently vacated home, the film evokes both memory and the lingering presence of past inhabitants. Through precise, enigmatic...
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- 1969

The Count of Days
The Count of Days61969HD
The film is seen as though upon and through the structure of its spiritual partitions. One might say that there are three elements or levels to the...
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- 2002

The Hedge Theater
The Hedge Theater6.52002HD
Some years after filming AMOR, I returned to Italy and found the source for a new film in the architecture of Borromini and in a grove of trees with...
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- 2003

Early Monthly Segments
Early Monthly Segments82003HD
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...
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- 2010

Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J. Markopoulos
Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J. Markopoulos02010HD
Short film shot in Rapallo, 1987.
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- 2024

A Visit With Robert
A Visit With Robert02024HD
In Spring 2013 I was artist in residence at Dartmouth College in New England. This was a vital time for me developing films and projects with artists...
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- 1997

The Stoas
The Stoas81997HD
The title refers to the colonnades that led to the shady groves of the ancient Lyceum, here remembered in shots of industrial arcades, bathed in...
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- 1974

Ruskin
Ruskin6.21974HD
Ruskin visits the sites of John Ruskin’s work: London, the Alps and, above all, Venice, where the camera’s attention to masonry and the...
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- 2007

Pitcher of Colored Light
Pitcher of Colored Light6.92007HD
Filmed in his mother’s house and garden, Beavers traces shifting shadows across seasons, capturing a blend of solitude and peace. Light and...
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- 2000

Sotiros
Sotiros6.82000HD
In Sotiros, there is an unspoken dialogue and a seen dialogue, The latter is held between the intertitles and the images; the former is moved by the...
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- 1971

Still Light
Still Light6.51971HD
The first half of the film explores delicate nuances of lighting, colour and depth as Beavers shoots the face of a young man in various locales on...
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- 2026

Making films out of light and memory
Making films out of light and memory02026HD
Documentary about Robert Beavers's works.
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- 2024

Dedication: Bernice Hodges
Dedication: Bernice Hodges02024HD
“I walked into Bernice Hodges’s garden when I was seven years old and asked her to read to me. She was in her mid-seventies. Out of this...
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