Robert Beavers

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1949-01-01 (76 years old)

Place of Birth

Brookline, Massachusetts, USA

Robert Beavers

Biography

Robert Beavers is an American experimental filmmaker best known for My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure, an epic cycle comprising 18 of his films (many later re-edited) made since 1967. Beavers’s use of shaped mattes to obscure aspects of the image and gelatine filters that produce varieties of coloured light are hallmarks of some of his films, many of which observe hand- and craftwork (including his own filmmaking). Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, Beavers attended Deerfield Academy before meeting the filmmaker Gregory J. Markopoulos in 1966. They moved to Europe in 1967 and removed their films from distributi...

Production

1974

Ruskin

as Director

1980

Amor

as Director

2022

1970

Diminished Frame

as Director

2000

Sotiros

as Director

2010

The Suppliant

as Director

2010

The Suppliant

as Cinematography

2003

Early Monthly Segments

as Cinematography

2003

2002

2001

The Ground

as Director

1973

Work Done

as Director

1967

Spiracle

as Director

1972

The Painting

as Director

1967

Winged Dialogue

as Director

1997

The Stoas

as Director

1969

2014

First Weeks

as Director

1971

Still Light

as Director

1985

Wingseed

as Director

1983

Efpsychi

as Director

1968

Plan of Brussels

as Director

1970

Palinode

as Director

2017

2016

Shared Table

as Editor

2001

The Ground

as Cinematography

2001

The Ground

as Editor

1972

From the Notebook of...

as Cinematography

2002

The Hedge Theater

as Cinematography

2002

2016

Shared Table

as Director

2016

Shared Table

as Cinematography

2010

The Suppliant

as Editor

1969

View

as Director

1977

Sotiros Responds

as Director

1978

Sotiros (Alone)

as Director

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