Robert Beavers Movies

  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1980
    Amor

    Amor

    Amor

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    Cutting and sewing as metaphors. Central to this work is the complex emotions surrounding love, separation, and the metonymic twinning of objects,...

    Amor
  • 2003
    Early Monthly Segments

    Early Monthly Segments

    Early Monthly Segments

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    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...

    Early Monthly Segments
  • 2016
    Shared Table

    Shared Table

    Shared Table

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    “Last August, several filmmakers joined me to repair the splices in Markopoulos’s Eniaios. I interrupted our work for a moment; the...

    Shared Table
  • 1972
    The Painting

    The Painting

    The Painting

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

    The Painting
  • 1972
    From the Notebook of...

    From the Notebook of...

    From the Notebook of...

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    "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...

    From the Notebook of...
  • 1967
    Winged Dialogue

    Winged Dialogue

    Winged Dialogue

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

    Winged Dialogue
  • 1974
    Ruskin

    Ruskin

    Ruskin

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    “Ruskin visits the sites of (art critic) John Ruskin’s work: London, the Alps and, above all, Venice, where the camera’s attention...

    Ruskin
  • 1983
    Efpsychi

    Efpsychi

    Efpsychi

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    “The details of the young actor’s face – his eyes, eyebrows, earlobe, chin, etc. – are set opposite the old buildings in the...

    Efpsychi
  • 2018
    Cape Cod

    Cape Cod

    Cape Cod

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    Cape Cod
  • 1985
    Wingseed

    Wingseed

    Wingseed

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    “A seed that floats in the air, a whirligig, a love charm. This magnificent landscape, both hot and dry, is far from sterile; rather, the heat...

    Wingseed
  • 1967
    On the Everyday Use of the Eyes of Death

    On the Everyday Use of the Eyes of Death

    On the Everyday Use of the Eyes of Death

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    Filmed in Italy (Rome), on Agfa-Gaevert reversal film. Beavers destroyed the camera original.

    On the Everyday Use of the Eyes of Death
  • 2008
    Zuoz

    Zuoz

    Zuoz

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

    Zuoz
  • 1973
    Work Done

    Work Done

    Work Done

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    ”Bracing in its simplicity, Work done was shot in Florence and the Alps, and celebrates an archaic Europe. Contemplating a stone vault cooled...

    Work Done
  • 1967
    Eros, O Basileus

    Eros, O Basileus

    Eros, O Basileus

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

    Eros, O Basileus
  • 1968
    Plan of Brussels

    Plan of Brussels

    Plan of Brussels

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    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...

    Plan of Brussels
  • 1969
    The Count of Days

    The Count of Days

    The Count of Days

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    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...

    The Count of Days
  • 1970
    Diminished Frame

    Diminished Frame

    Diminished Frame

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    “There is a balance between a sense of the past seen in the views of West Berlin, filmed in black & white, and a sense of the present in...

    Diminished Frame
  • 2013
    Listening to the Space in My Room

    Listening to the Space in My Room

    Listening to the Space in My Room

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    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...

    Listening to the Space in My Room
  • 2002
    The Hedge Theater

    The Hedge Theater

    The Hedge Theater

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    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...

    The Hedge Theater