Robert Beavers (born 1949) is an American

experimental film Experimental film or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narrative forms or alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working. Many experimental films, parti ...

maker. Born and raised in

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, he attended

Deerfield Academy Deerfield Academy is an elite coeducational preparatory school in Deerfield, Massachusetts. Founded in 1797, it is one of the oldest secondary schools in the United States. It is a member of the Eight Schools Association, the Ten Schools Admis ...

which he left before graduating to move to New York in 1965 to pursue filmmaking. He lived in New York until 1967 when he and his partner, Gregory Markopoulos, left the United States for Europe, where they continued to live and make films until Markopoulos's death in 1992. Both filmmakers restricted the screenings of their films after leaving America, and instead held yearly screenings of their work from 1980 to 1986 at the Temenos, a site near Lyssaraia in Arcadia, Greece. After Markopoulos' death, Beavers founded Temenos, Inc., a non-profit devoted to the preservation of his and Markopoulos's work. Beavers has worked extensively on re-editing his films to create the larger film cycle ''My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure''.

Selected filmography

*''Spiracle'' (1966) :16mm, color, sound; 12 minutes *~''Early Monthly Segments'' (1968?70/2002)~ :35mm, color, silent; 33 minutes *~''Winged Dialogue'' (1967/2000) and *~''Plan of Brussels'' (1968/2000) :35mm, color, sound; 21 minutes :The final edit combines both films on one reel *~''The Count of Days'' (1969/2001) :35 mm, color, sound; 21 minutes :The final edit includes part of ''Early Monthly Segments'' on the same reel *~''Palinode'' (1970/2001) :35mm, color, sound; 21 minutes :The final edit includes part of ''Early Monthly Segments'' on the same reel *~''Diminished Frame'' (1970/2001) :35mm, black and white, and color, sound; 24 minutes :The final edit includes part of ''Early Monthly Segments'' on the same reel *~''Still Light'' (1970/2001) :35mm, black-and-white and color, sound; 25 minutes *~''From the Notebook of'' (1971/1998) :35mm, color, sound 48 minutes *~''The Painting'' (1972/1999) :35mm, color, sound; 22 minutes *~''Work Done'' (1972/1999) :35mm, color, sound; 22 minutes *~''Ruskin'' (1975/1997) :35mm, black-and-white and color, sound; 45 minutes *~''Sotiros'' (1976-78/1996) :35mm, color, sound; 25 minutes :The final edit comprises three earlier films; ''Sotiros Responds'' (1976), ''Sotiros (Alone)'' (1977), and ''Sotiros in the Elements'' (1978) *~''AMOR'' (1980) :35mm, color, sound; 15 minutes *~''Efpsychi'' (1983/1996) :35mm, color, sound; 20 minutes *~''Wingseed'' (1985) :35mm, color, sound; 15 minutes *~''The Hedge Theater'' (1986?90/2002) :35mm, color, sound; 19 minutes :Includes footage from ''Borromini'' (1986) and ''San Martino/Il Sassetta'' (1987-1990) *~''The Stoas'' (1991–97) :35mm, color, sound; 22 minutes *~''The Ground'' (1993–2001) :35mm, color, sound; 20 minutes *''Pitcher of Colored Light'' (2007) :35mm, color, sound; 24 minutes *''The Suppliant'' (2010) :16mm, color, sound; 5 minutes *''Listening to the Space in my Room'' (2013) :16mm, color, sound; 19 minutes *''Among the Eucalyptuses'' (2017) :16mm, color; 4 minutes *''“Der Klang, die Welt…”'' (2018) :16mm, color, sound; 4 minutes ~Part of the cycle ''My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure'' (1967-2002)

Bibliography

Selected articles: * Beavers, Robert
''Writings''
Millennium Film Journal no. 32/33 Fall 1988. * Beavers, Robert. The Searching Measure. University of California, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, 2004. * Pipolo, Toni

Millennium Film Journal no. 32/33 Fall 1988. * Iles, Chrissie
"Frames of Mind"
Artforum September, 2005.

References

External links

The Temenos Association

Millennium Film Journal no. 32/33
Devoted to Gregory Markopoulos and Robert Beavers
To The Winged Distance: Films by Robert Beavers''Robert Beavers. My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure'', Retrospective at the Austrian Film Museum, 2010
{{DEFAULTSORT:Beavers, Robert American experimental filmmakers Film directors from Massachusetts 1949 births Living people Deerfield Academy alumni American LGBT film directors LGBT people from Massachusetts 21st-century American LGBT people 20th-century American LGBT people

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