Robert Beavers

Robert Beavers

Directing
Born 1949-01-01 Brookline, Massachusetts, USA 44 credits
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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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Filmography
Directing 35 credits
The Hedge Theater
The Hedge Theater
2002 · Director, Himself, Cinematography
Amor
Amor
1980 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
Wingseed
Wingseed
1985 · Director
My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
2005 · Director, Himself, Editor
From the Notebook of...
From the Notebook of...
1972 · Director, Himself, Editor
Diminished Frame
Diminished Frame
1970 · Director
Winged Dialogue
Winged Dialogue
1967 · Director
Work Done
Work Done
1973 · Director
The Ground
The Ground
2001 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
The Sparrow Dream
The Sparrow Dream
2022 · Director
Still Light
Still Light
1971 · Director
Listening to the Space in My Room
Listening to the Space in My Room
2013 · Director, Himself, Editor
Ruskin
Ruskin
1974 · Director
Pitcher of Colored Light
Pitcher of Colored Light
2007 · Director
Sotiros
Sotiros
2000 · Director
Among the Eucalyptuses
Among the Eucalyptuses
2017 · Director
The Count of Days
The Count of Days
1969 · Director
Early Monthly Segments
Early Monthly Segments
2003 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
The Suppliant
The Suppliant
2010 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
Efpsychi
Efpsychi
1983 · Director
The Stoas
The Stoas
1997 · Director
Shared Table
Shared Table
2016 · Director, Editor, Cinematography
Plan of Brussels
Plan of Brussels
1968 · Director
“Der Klang, die Welt…”
“Der Klang, die Welt…”
2018 · Director
The Painting
The Painting
1972 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
Palinode
Palinode
1970 · Director
Sotiros in the Elements
Sotiros in the Elements
1978 · Director
Dedication: Bernice Hodges
Dedication: Bernice Hodges
2024 · Director
Spiracle
Spiracle
1967 · Director
First Weeks
First Weeks
2014 · Director
View
View
1969 · Director
On the Everyday Use of the Eyes of Death
On the Everyday Use of the Eyes of Death
1967 · Director
Sotiros (Alone)
Sotiros (Alone)
1978 · Director
Sotiros Responds
Sotiros Responds
1977 · Director
My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
· Director, Himself
Acting 17 credits
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation
1997 · Self
The Hedge Theater
The Hedge Theater
2002 · Director, Himself, Cinematography
Amor
Amor
1980 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
2005 · Director, Himself, Editor
From the Notebook of...
From the Notebook of...
1972 · Director, Himself, Editor
The Ground
The Ground
2001 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
Jabbok
Jabbok
1967 · Jabbok
Listening to the Space in My Room
Listening to the Space in My Room
2013 · Director, Himself, Editor
Early Monthly Segments
Early Monthly Segments
2003 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
The Suppliant
The Suppliant
2010 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
Shared Table
Shared Table
2016 · Director, Editor, Cinematography
Zuoz
Zuoz
2008 · Ice skater
Eros, O Basileus
Eros, O Basileus
1967 · Eros
The Painting
The Painting
1972 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J.Markopoulos
Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J.Markopoulos
2010 · Self - director
Cape Cod
Cape Cod
2018 · himself
My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
· Director, Himself
Other credits 13 credits
The Hedge Theater
The Hedge Theater
2002 · Director, Himself, Cinematography
Amor
Amor
1980 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
2005 · Director, Himself, Editor
From the Notebook of...
From the Notebook of...
1972 · Director, Himself, Editor
The Ground
The Ground
2001 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
Listening to the Space in My Room
Listening to the Space in My Room
2013 · Director, Himself, Editor
Early Monthly Segments
Early Monthly Segments
2003 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
The Suppliant
The Suppliant
2010 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
Shared Table
Shared Table
2016 · Director, Editor, Cinematography
The Painting
The Painting
1972 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
A Visit With Robert
A Visit With Robert
2024
Mother's Day
Mother's Day
2006
The Mirror Garden
The Mirror Garden
1967
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