Movies

  • 2002
    The Hedge Theater

    The Hedge Theater

    The Hedge Theater

    6.52002HD

    Filmed in Rome in the 1980s, the work draws on Borromini’s Baroque architecture and Il Sassetta’s St. Martin and the Beggar. Beavers...

    The Hedge Theater
  • 1973
    Work Done

    Work Done

    Work Done

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    Shot in Florence and the Alps, the film contemplates traditional European labor—ice vaults, bookbinding, cooking—while largely omitting...

    Work Done
  • 1978
    Sotiros in the Elements

    Sotiros in the Elements

    Sotiros in the Elements

    01978HD

    The final entry in Robert Beavers' Sotiros trilogy

    Sotiros in the Elements
  • 1971
    Still Light

    Still Light

    Still Light

    6.51971HD

    The first half of the film explores delicate nuances of lighting, colour and depth as Beavers shoots the face of a young man in various locales on...

    Still Light
  • 2000
    Sotiros

    Sotiros

    Sotiros

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    Distilled in 1996 from an earlier 50-minute trilogy, this film was shot in Greece and Austria and structured around two recurring intertitles,...

    Sotiros
  • 1967
    Spiracle

    Spiracle

    Spiracle

    01967HD

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

    Spiracle
  • 1974
    Ruskin

    Ruskin

    Ruskin

    6.21974HD

    Beavers traces John Ruskin’s legacy from London to the Alps and especially Venice, where the camera lingers on stone and water in dialogue with...

    Ruskin
  • 1967
    The Mirror Garden

    The Mirror Garden

    The Mirror Garden

    01967HD

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

    The Mirror Garden
  • 1967
    Winged Dialogue

    Winged Dialogue

    Winged Dialogue

    01967HD

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

    Winged Dialogue
  • 2022
    The Sparrow Dream

    The Sparrow Dream

    The Sparrow Dream

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

    The Sparrow Dream
  • 2001
    The Ground

    The Ground

    The Ground

    6.22001HD

    Interweaving stonework and filmmaking, Beavers evokes memory through hammer strokes and chisel sounds that shape both image and rhythm. In this...

    The Ground
  • 2014
    First Weeks

    First Weeks

    First Weeks

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    “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...

    First Weeks
  • 1997
    The Stoas

    The Stoas

    The Stoas

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

    The Stoas
  • 1966
    On the Everyday Use of the Eyes of Death

    On the Everyday Use of the Eyes of Death

    On the Everyday Use of the Eyes of Death

    01966HD

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

    On the Everyday Use of the Eyes of Death
  • 2024
    A Visit With Robert

    A Visit With Robert

    A Visit With Robert

    02024HD

    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...

    A Visit With Robert
  • 2010
    The Suppliant

    The Suppliant

    The Suppliant

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    Filmed in 2003 while staying in a Brooklyn Heights apartment, the work centers on a small Greek statue revealed in shifting morning and afternoon...

    The Suppliant
  • 2017
    Among the Eucalyptuses

    Among the Eucalyptuses

    Among the Eucalyptuses

    62017HD

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

    Among the Eucalyptuses
  • 2024
    Dedication: Bernice Hodges

    Dedication: Bernice Hodges

    Dedication: Bernice Hodges

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    “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...

    Dedication: Bernice Hodges
  • 1983
    Efpsychi

    Efpsychi

    Efpsychi

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    “The details of the young actor’s face – his eyes, eyebrows, earlobe, chin, etc. – are set opposite the old buildings in the...

    Efpsychi
  • 1978
    Sotiros (Alone)

    Sotiros (Alone)

    Sotiros (Alone)

    01978HD

    The second film in Robert Beavers' Sotiros trilogy

    Sotiros (Alone)