Robert Beavers Movies
- 1970
Palinode
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In Palinode a disk-shaped matte continually shifting in and out of focus alternately blocks part of the image or contains it. Its respiratory rhythm...
- 2022
The Sparrow Dream
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Beavers’ starting point for this film was a question about how the places where he has lived influences how he sees. Beavers return to one or...
- 2000
Sotiros
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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...
- 1969
View
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The view from a window overlooking a busy city street overlays varying geometric shapes moving against a brightly coloured background. Silence is...
- 1969
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...
- 1967
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.
- 1985
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...
- 2016
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...
- 1971
Still Light
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Landscape and desire. Details from the Greek island of Hydra, a figure, a study in light and place and the act of creation. The first half of the...
- 1983
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...
- 1973
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...
- 1974
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...
- 2007
Pitcher of Colored Light
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“I have filmed my mother’s house and her garden. The shadows play an essential part in the mixture of loneliness and peace that exists...
- 2014
First Weeks
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“Call them spontaneous or occasional films. I did not know if I would show this publicly when I filmed. The gift was Luke Fowler suggesting...
- 1977
Sotiros Responds
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The first film in Robert Beavers' Sotiros trilogy
- 1978
Sotiros in the Elements
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The final entry in Robert Beavers' Sotiros trilogy
- 1972
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,...
- 1970
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...