Robert Beavers Movies
- 1971
Still Light
Still Light61971HD
Filmed on Hydra, the work studies a young man’s face across shifting light and landscape, framed through customized masks and filters. The...
- 2007
Pitcher of Colored Light
Pitcher of Colored Light6.42007HD
Filmed in his mother’s house and garden, Beavers traces shifting shadows across seasons, capturing a blend of solitude and peace. Light and...
- 1968
Plan of Brussels
Plan of Brussels61968HD
Filmed in a Brussels hotel room, Beavers alternates between his work desk and lying nude on the bed, while rapid cuts and superimpositions conjure a...
- 2006
Mother's Day
Mother's Day02006HD
Short video by Tom Chomont, features Robert Beavers and his mother during the filming of Pitcher of Colored Light. Consists of sections titled Bathed...
- 1969
The Count of Days
The Count of Days01969HD
The film is seen as though upon and through the structure of its spiritual partitions. One might say that there are three elements or levels to the...
- 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.
- 1977
Sotiros Responds
Sotiros Responds01977HD
The first film in Robert Beavers' Sotiros trilogy
- 1970
Palinode
Palinode01970HD
In Palinode a disk-shaped matte continually shifting in and out of focus alternately blocks part of the image or contains it. Its respiratory rhythm...
- 2016
Shared Table
Shared Table02016HD
“Last August, several filmmakers joined me to repair the splices in Markopoulos’s Eniaios. I interrupted our work for a moment; the...
- 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...
- 2010
The Suppliant
The Suppliant02010HD
Filmed in 2003 while staying in a Brooklyn Heights apartment, the work centers on a small Greek statue revealed in shifting morning and afternoon...
- 1997
The Stoas
The Stoas81997HD
Named for the colonnades of the ancient Lyceum, the film juxtaposes industrial arcades in golden morning light with lush images of streams and wooded...
- 2022
The Sparrow Dream
The Sparrow Dream02022HD
Beavers revisits locations in Berlin first filmed in Diminished Frame (1970), alongside sites in Massachusetts, to reflect on how lived places shape...
- 2002
The Hedge Theater
The Hedge Theater6.42002HD
Filmed in Rome in the 1980s, the work draws on Borromini’s Baroque architecture and Il Sassetta’s St. Martin and the Beggar. Beavers...
- 1974
Ruskin
Ruskin61974HD
Beavers traces John Ruskin’s legacy from London to the Alps and especially Venice, where the camera lingers on stone and water in dialogue with...
- 2024
A Visit With Robert
A Visit With Robert02024HD
In Spring 2013 I was artist in residence at Dartmouth College in New England. This was a vital time for me developing films and projects with artists...
- 1983
Efpsychi
Efpsychi01983HD
“The details of the young actor’s face – his eyes, eyebrows, earlobe, chin, etc. – are set opposite the old buildings in the...
- 2017
Among the Eucalyptuses
Among the Eucalyptuses02017HD
Late afternoon quiet and a silent figure seated on a bench in Nafplion; the historic figures of Kolokotronis and Kapodistrias; plus the old factories...
- 1972
The Painting
The Painting01972HD
Beavers intercuts scenes of traffic in Bern with details from the 15th-century altarpiece The Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus. In its revised form, the...
- 1978
Sotiros (Alone)
Sotiros (Alone)01978HD
The second film in Robert Beavers' Sotiros trilogy