Robert Beavers Movies

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

Beavers’ starting point for this film was a question about how the places where he has lived influences how he sees. Beavers return to one or...

The second film in Robert Beavers' Sotiros trilogy

“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...

The Painting intercuts shots of traffic navigating the old-world remnants of downtown Bern, Switzerland, with details from a 15th-century altarpiece,...

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

The first film in Robert Beavers' Sotiros trilogy

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

Late afternoon quiet and a silent figure seated on a bench; the old factories and machinery, warehouses and train lines are part of Greece, now...

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

“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...

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

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

The final entry in Robert Beavers' Sotiros trilogy

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...

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...

Landscape and desire. Details from the Greek island of Hydra, a figure, a study in light and place and the act of creation. The first half of the...

“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...