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Robert Beavers

Robert Beavers

Directing •1949-01-01 •Brookline, Massachusetts, USA

Robert Beavers (born 1949) is an American experimental filmmaker whose work stands among the most significant in postwar avant-garde cinema. He is best known for My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure, an 18-film cycle spanning decades of work, much of it later re-edited. Beavers developed a distinctive visual language using hand-cut mattes, filters, and precise sound–image structures, often focusing on craft and manual labor as metaphors for filmmaking itself. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, he began making films in New York before moving to Europe in 1967 with his partner, Gregory J. Markopoulos. Together they withdrew their films from distribution, presenting them only at the Temenos screenings in Arcadia, Greece (1980–86). After Markopoulos’s death in 1992, Beavers founded Temenos, Inc. to preserve both of their legacies. His films draw deeply on place and history, from Florence in From the Notebook of… (1971/1998) and Venice in Ruskin (1975/1997) to the Greek landscapes of Wingseed (1985), The Hedge Theater (1986–90/2002), and The Ground (1993–2001). Later works include Pitcher of Colored Light (2007), The Suppliant (2012), Listening to the Space in My Room (2013), and The Sparrow Dream (2022). Beavers continues to live and work between Berlin and Massachusetts with filmmaker Ute Aurand, while overseeing the preservation of both his own films and Markopoulos’s Eniaios.

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代表作

Listening to the Space in My Room
Listening to the Space in My Room
2013 · Himself
Listening to the Space in My Room
Listening to the Space in My Room
2013 · Director
Listening to the Space in My Room
Listening to the Space in My Room
2013 · Editor
Listening to the Space in My Room
Listening to the Space in My Room
2013 · Cinematography
Work Done
Work Done
1973 · Director
The Stoas
The Stoas
1997 · Director
“Der Klang, die Welt…”
“Der Klang, die Welt…”
2018 · Director
The Hedge Theater
The Hedge Theater
2002 · Himself
The Hedge Theater
The Hedge Theater
2002 · Director
The Hedge Theater
The Hedge Theater
2002 · Cinematography
The Hedge Theater
The Hedge Theater
2002 · Editor
Pitcher of Colored Light
Pitcher of Colored Light
2007 · Director
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全部作品

A Visit With Robert
2024
Dedication: Bernice Hodges
2024 •Director
The Sparrow Dream
2022 •Director
Cape Cod
2018 •himself
“Der Klang, die Welt…”
2018 •Director
Among the Eucalyptuses
2017 •Director
Shared Table
2016 •Director
Shared Table
2016 •Editor
Shared Table
2016 •Cinematography
First Weeks
2014 •Director
展开全部作品
Listening to the Space in My Room
2013 •Himself
Listening to the Space in My Room
2013 •Director
Listening to the Space in My Room
2013 •Editor
Listening to the Space in My Room
2013 •Cinematography
The Suppliant
2010 •Director
The Suppliant
2010 •Cinematography
The Suppliant
2010 •Editor
Zuoz
2008 •Ice skater
Pitcher of Colored Light
2007 •Director
Mother's Day
2006
Early Monthly Segments
2003
Early Monthly Segments
2003 •Director
Early Monthly Segments
2003 •Cinematography
Early Monthly Segments
2003 •Editor
The Hedge Theater
2002 •Himself
The Hedge Theater
2002 •Director
The Hedge Theater
2002 •Cinematography
The Hedge Theater
2002 •Editor
The Ground
2001 •Director
The Ground
2001 •Cinematography
The Ground
2001 •Editor
Sotiros
2000
Sotiros
2000 •Director
一个国家的诞生
1997 •Self
The Stoas
1997 •Director
Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J.Markopoulos
1987 •Self - director
Wingseed
1985 •Director
Efpsychi
1983 •Director
Amor
1980 •Director
Amor
1980 •Cinematography
Amor
1980 •Editor
Sotiros (Alone)
1978 •Director
Sotiros in the Elements
1978 •Director
Sotiros Responds
1977 •Director
Ruskin
1974 •Director
Work Done
1973 •Director
From the Notebook of...
1972 •Himself
From the Notebook of...
1972 •Director
The Painting
1972 •Director
From the Notebook of...
1972 •Editor
From the Notebook of...
1972 •Sound
From the Notebook of...
1972 •Cinematography
The Painting
1972 •Cinematography
The Painting
1972 •Editor
Still Light
1971
Still Light
1971 •Director
Diminished Frame
1970 •Director
Palinode
1970 •Director
The Count of Days
1969 •Director
View
1969 •Director
Plan of Brussels
1968
Plan of Brussels
1968 •Director
Eros, O Basileus
1967 •Eros
Winged Dialogue
1967
Jabbok
1967 •Jabbok
On the Everyday Use of the Eyes of Death
1967 •Director
Spiracle
1967 •Director
Winged Dialogue
1967 •Director
My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
•Director