Robert Beavers

Robert Beavers (born 1949) is an American experimental filmmaker. Born and raised in Massachusetts, he attended Deerfield Academy 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.

• 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)

35 mm, color, sonido; 20 minutos

• ~ Wingseed (1985)

35 mm, color, sonido; 15 minutos

• ~ El Teatro Hedge (1986-1990/2002)

35 mm, color, sonido; 19 minutos

Incluye imágenes de Borromini (1986) y San Martino/Il Sassetta (1987-1990)

• ~ The Stoas (1991–97)

35 mm, color, sonido; 22 minutos

• ~ El terreno (1993–2001)

35 mm, color, sonido; 20 minutos

• Jarra de luz de colores (2007)

35 mm, color, sonido; 24 minutos

• El suplicante (2010)

16 mm, color, sonido; 5 minutos

• Escuchando el espacio en mi habitación (2013)

16 mm, color, sonido; 19 minutos

• Entre los eucaliptos (2017) ^{[ 1 ]}

16 mm, color; 4 minutos

• “Der Klang, die Welt…” (2018) ^{[ 2 ]}

16 mm, color, sonido; 4 minutos

• Dedicatoria: Bernice Hodges (2024) ^{[ 3 ]}

5 minutos

~Parte del ciclo Mi mano extendida hacia la distancia alada y Medida ciega (1967–2002)

Artículos seleccionados:

• Beavers, Robert. Escritos. Millennium Film Journal n.º 32/33. Otoño de 1988.
• Beavers, Robert. La medida de búsqueda . Museo de Arte de la Universidad de California, Berkeley/Archivo Cinematográfico del Pacífico, 2004.
• Pipolo, Toni. "Una entrevista con Robert Beavers". Millennium Film Journal n.º 32/33, otoño de 1988.
• Islas, Chrissie. Artforum "Frames of Mind" septiembre de 2005.

• Rebekah Rutkoff (Ed.), Robert Beavers , FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen vol. 30, Viena: 2017, ISBN 978-3-901644-69-6
• Alexander Horwath / Österreichisches Filmmuseum (Ed.): Robert Beavers. Die ausgestreckte Hand , Viena: 2010.

• Sitio web oficial
• La Asociación Temenos
• Millennium Film Journal nº 32/33 Dedicado a Gregory Markopoulos y Robert Beavers
• Robert Beavers. Mi mano extendida hacia la distancia alada y Medida ciega , Retrospectiva en el Museo de Cine Austriaco, 2010