Robert Beavers Movies

“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...

Beavers distilled the 26-minute Sotiros in 1996 from an original 50-minute trilogy. Filmed in Athens and Peloponnesus in Greece as well as in...

“A seed that floats in the air, a whirligig, a love charm. This magnificent landscape, both hot and dry, is far from sterile; rather, the heat...

“I have filmed my mother’s house and her garden. The shadows play an essential part in the mixture of loneliness and peace that exists...

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

”Bracing in its simplicity, Work done was shot in Florence and the Alps, and celebrates an archaic Europe. Contemplating a stone vault cooled...

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

“Ruskin visits the sites of (art critic) John Ruskin’s work: London, the Alps and, above all, Venice, where the camera’s attention...

The first film in Robert Beavers' Sotiros trilogy

The second film in Robert Beavers' Sotiros trilogy

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...

"Winged Dialogue details with growing clarity the desperate beauty and sexuality of the body animated by its soul, essence blindly reaching out,...

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...

'“Der Klang, die Welt…” was filmed in the same site as Listening to the Space in My Room, but now we hear Dieter Staehelin...

“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...

The final entry in Robert Beavers' Sotiros trilogy

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