Robert Beavers Movies

“My filming for The Suppliant was done in February 2003, while a guest in the Brooklyn Heights apartment of Jacques Dehornois. When I recollect...

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

The final entry in Robert Beavers' Sotiros trilogy

The second film in Robert Beavers' Sotiros trilogy

The first film in Robert Beavers' Sotiros trilogy

Shedding all traces of narrative in Plan of Brussels, Beavers filmed himself in a hotel room, both at his work desk and lying naked on the bed, while...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

“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...

“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...

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