
Actor
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.
Născut
1 ianuarie 1949
Zodie
Capricorn
Vârstă
77 ani
Locul nașterii
Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Universul filmelor sale
Regie · 8 filme
Robert Beavers
From the Notebook of..., The Hedge Theater, Sotiros, Plan of Brussels, Listening to the Space in My Room, Still Light, Early Monthly Segments, Winged Dialogue
Regie · 3 filme
Tom Chomont
Jabbok, Mother's Day, The Mirror Garden

From the Notebook of...
Himself
1972

The Hedge Theater
Himself
2002

Birth of a Nation
Self
1997

Eros, O Basileus
Eros
1967

Sotiros
2000

Zuoz
Ice skater
2008

Plan of Brussels
1968

Listening to the Space in My Room
Himself
2013

Still Light
1971

Early Monthly Segments
2003

Winged Dialogue
1967

Cape Cod
himself
2018

Jabbok
Jabbok
1967

Mother's Day
2006

A Visit With Robert
2024

The Mirror Garden
1967