Robert Beavers Movies

  • 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...
  • 2001
    The Ground

    The Ground

    The Ground

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    What lives in the space between the stones, in the space cupped between my hand and my chest? Filmmaker/stonemason. A tower or ruin of remembrance....

    The Ground
  • 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
  • 1978
    Sotiros (Alone)

    Sotiros (Alone)

    Sotiros (Alone)

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    The second film in Robert Beavers' Sotiros trilogy

    Sotiros (Alone)
  • 1969
    View

    View

    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...

    View
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2010
    The Suppliant

    The Suppliant

    The Suppliant

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    “My filming for The Suppliant was done in February 2003, while a guest in the Brooklyn Heights apartment of Jacques Dehornois. When I recollect...

    The Suppliant
  • 2022
    The Sparrow Dream

    The Sparrow Dream

    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...

    The Sparrow Dream
  • 2024
    Dedication: Bernice Hodges

    Dedication: Bernice Hodges

    Dedication: Bernice Hodges

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    “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...

    Dedication: Bernice Hodges
  • 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
  • 2018
    Cape Cod

    Cape Cod

    Cape Cod

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    Cape Cod
  • 1997
    The Stoas

    The Stoas

    The Stoas

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

    The Stoas
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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