
Robert Beavers
Known for DirectingBorn 1949-01-01 (age 77)Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
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.Read more
Movies & web series
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Listening to the Space in My Room
2013 · Movie
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Wingseed
1985 · Movie
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Work Done
1973 · Movie
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The Stoas
1997 · Movie
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“Der Klang, die Welt…”
2018 · Movie
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Birth of a Nation
1997 · Movie
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The Painting
1972 · Movie
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Sotiros
2000 · Movie
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Pitcher of Colored Light
2007 · Movie
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The Hedge Theater
2002 · Movie
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Zuoz
2008 · Movie
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From the Notebook of...
1972 · Movie
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The Ground
2001 · Movie
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Ruskin
1974 · Movie
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Amor
1980 · Movie
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Still Light
1971 · Movie
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Plan of Brussels
1968 · Movie
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Eros, O Basileus
1967 · Movie

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A Visit With Robert
2024 · Movie

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Dedication: Bernice Hodges
2024 · Movie

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The Sparrow Dream
2022 · Movie

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Cape Cod
2018 · Movie

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Among the Eucalyptuses
2017 · Movie

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Shared Table
2016 · Movie
First Weeks
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First Weeks
2014 · Movie

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The Suppliant
2010 · Movie

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Mother's Day
2006 · Movie

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Early Monthly Segments
2003 · Movie
Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J.Markopoulos
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Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J.Markopoulos
1987 · Movie

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Efpsychi
1983 · Movie
Sotiros (Alone)
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Sotiros (Alone)
1978 · Movie
Sotiros in the Elements
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Sotiros in the Elements
1978 · Movie
Sotiros Responds
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Sotiros Responds
1977 · Movie

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Diminished Frame
1970 · Movie

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Palinode
1970 · Movie

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The Count of Days
1969 · Movie
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1969 · Movie

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Winged Dialogue
1967 · Movie

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Jabbok
1967 · Movie

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The Mirror Garden
1967 · Movie
On the Everyday Use of the Eyes of Death
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On the Everyday Use of the Eyes of Death
1967 · Movie

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Spiracle
1967 · Movie

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My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
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