Robert Beavers Movies
- 1972
From the Notebook of...
From the Notebook of...6.11972HD
"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...
- 2001
The Ground
The Ground62001HD
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....
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
- 1980
Amor
Amor5.71980HD
Cutting and sewing as metaphors. Central to this work is the complex emotions surrounding love, separation, and the metonymic twinning of objects,...
- 1978
Sotiros (Alone)
Sotiros (Alone)01978HD
The second film in Robert Beavers' Sotiros trilogy
- 1969
View
View01969HD
The view from a window overlooking a busy city street overlays varying geometric shapes moving against a brightly coloured background. Silence is...
- 2003
Early Monthly Segments
Early Monthly Segments02003HD
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...
- 2002
The Hedge Theater
The Hedge Theater6.42002HD
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...
- 2013
Listening to the Space in My Room
Listening to the Space in My Room102013HD
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...
- 2010
The Suppliant
The Suppliant02010HD
“My filming for The Suppliant was done in February 2003, while a guest in the Brooklyn Heights apartment of Jacques Dehornois. When I recollect...
- 2022
The Sparrow Dream
The Sparrow Dream02022HD
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...
- 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...
- 1967
Winged Dialogue
Winged Dialogue01967HD
"Winged Dialogue details with growing clarity the desperate beauty and sexuality of the body animated by its soul, essence blindly reaching out,...
- 2018
Cape Cod
Cape Cod02018HD
- 1997
The Stoas
The Stoas01997HD
“The title refers to the colonnades that led to the shady groves of the ancient Lyceum, here remembered in shots of industrial arcades, bathed...
- 2008
Zuoz
Zuoz02008HD
Filmed in Switzerland and released as part of a triptych with A Walk, Zuoz features the filmmaker Robert Beavers skating on ice. Beavers represents...
- 1968
Plan of Brussels
Plan of Brussels01968HD
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...
- 1972
The Painting
The Painting01972HD
The Painting intercuts shots of traffic navigating the old-world remnants of downtown Bern, Switzerland, with details from a 15th-century altarpiece,...
- 1967
On the Everyday Use of the Eyes of Death
On the Everyday Use of the Eyes of Death01967HD
Filmed in Italy (Rome), on Agfa-Gaevert reversal film. Beavers destroyed the camera original.
- 1974
Ruskin
Ruskin61974HD
“Ruskin visits the sites of (art critic) John Ruskin’s work: London, the Alps and, above all, Venice, where the camera’s attention...