Robert Beavers Movies

Short film shot in Rapallo, 1987.

The story of Jacob wrestling the angel at the stream called Jabbok.

Late afternoon quiet and a silent figure seated on a bench in Nafplion; the historic figures of Kolokotronis and Kapodistrias; plus the old factories...

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...

Named for the colonnades of the ancient Lyceum, the film juxtaposes industrial arcades in golden morning light with lush images of streams and wooded...

Filmed on Hydra, the work studies a young man’s face across shifting light and landscape, framed through customized masks and filters. The...

“Last August, several filmmakers joined me to repair the splices in Markopoulos’s Eniaios. I interrupted our work for a moment; the...

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...

Filmed in Switzerland and released as part of a triptych with A Walk, Zuoz features the filmmaker Robert Beavers skating on ice. Beavers represents...

Filmed in Italy (Rome), on Agfa-Gaevert reversal film. Beavers destroyed the camera original.

A romantic and lyric study of a young friend and readings he encouraged, especially Mallarmé.

“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...

Beavers revisits locations in Berlin first filmed in Diminished Frame (1970), alongside sites in Massachusetts, to reflect on how lived places shape...

“There is a balance between a sense of the past seen in the views of West Berlin, filmed in black & white, and a sense of the present in...

“Call them spontaneous or occasional films. I did not know if I would show this publicly when I filmed. The gift was Luke Fowler suggesting...

Documentary about Robert Beavers's works.

Portrait studies of Mrs. Hodges, Gail Beavers (the filmmaker’s sister) and Gregory J. Markopoulos.

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...

The first film in Robert Beavers' Sotiros trilogy

The view from a window overlooking a busy city street overlays varying geometric shapes moving against a brightly coloured background. Silence is...