Robert Beavers
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.
Zuoz
(Ice skater)
Eros, O Basileus
(Eros)
The Hedge Theater
(Himself)
Early Monthly Segments
Plan of Brussels
Winged Dialogue
Birth of a Nation
(Self)
From the Notebook of...
(Himself)
Listening to the Space in My Room
(Himself)
Cape Cod
(himself)
Jabbok
(Jabbok)
Sotiros
Still Light
Mother's Day
A Visit With Robert
Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J.Markopoulos
(Self - director)
From the Notebook of...
(Director)
Listening to the Space in My Room
(Director)
Ruskin
(Director)
Amor
(Director)
The Sparrow Dream
(Director)
Diminished Frame
(Director)
Sotiros
(Director)
The Suppliant
(Director)
The Suppliant
(Cinematography)
Early Monthly Segments
(Cinematography)
Early Monthly Segments
(Editor)
Early Monthly Segments
(Director)
The Hedge Theater
(Director)
The Ground
(Director)
Pitcher of Colored Light
(Director)
My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
(Director)
Work Done
(Director)
Spiracle
(Director)
The Painting
(Director)
Winged Dialogue
(Director)
The Stoas
(Director)
The Count of Days
(Director)
On the Everyday Use of the Eyes of Death
(Director)
First Weeks
(Director)
Still Light
(Director)
Wingseed
(Director)
Efpsychi
(Director)
Plan of Brussels
(Director)
Palinode
(Director)
Among the Eucalyptuses
(Director)
From the Notebook of...
(Sound)
Shared Table
(Editor)
The Ground
(Cinematography)
The Ground
(Editor)
From the Notebook of...
(Cinematography)
From the Notebook of...
(Editor)
The Hedge Theater
(Cinematography)
The Hedge Theater
(Editor)
Shared Table
(Director)
Listening to the Space in My Room
(Cinematography)
Shared Table
(Cinematography)
Listening to the Space in My Room
(Editor)
The Suppliant
(Editor)
“Der Klang, die Welt…”
(Director)
Dedication: Bernice Hodges
(Director)
View
(Director)
Sotiros Responds
(Director)
Sotiros (Alone)
(Director)
Sotiros in the Elements
(Director)
Amor
(Cinematography)
Amor
(Editor)
The Painting
(Cinematography)
The Painting
(Editor)