Robert Beavers
Robert Beavers (born 1949) is an American experimental filmmaker whose work stands among the most significant in postwar avant-garde cinema. He is best known for My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure, an 18-film cycle spanning decades of work, much of it later re-edited.
Beavers developed a distinctive visual language using hand-cut mattes, filters, and precise sound–image structures, often focusing on craft and manual labor as metaphors for filmmaking itself. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, he began making films in New York before moving to Europe in 1967 with his partner, Gregory J. Markopoulos. Together they withdrew their films from distribution, presenting them only at the Temenos screenings in Arcadia, Greece (1980–86). After Markopoulos’s death in 1992, Beavers founded Temenos, Inc. to preserve both of their legacies.
His films draw deeply on place and history, from Florence in From the Notebook of… (1971/1998) and Venice in Ruskin (1975/1997) to the Greek landscapes of Wingseed (1985), The Hedge Theater (1986–90/2002), and The Ground (1993–2001). Later works include Pitcher of Colored Light (2007), The Suppliant (2012), Listening to the Space in My Room (2013), and The Sparrow Dream (2022).
Beavers continues to live and work between Berlin and Massachusetts with filmmaker Ute Aurand, while overseeing the preservation of both his own films and Markopoulos’s Eniaios.

Zuoz

Eros, O Basileus

The Hedge Theater

Early Monthly Segments

Plan of Brussels

Winged Dialogue

Birth of a Nation

From the Notebook of...

Listening to the Space in My Room

Cape Cod

Jabbok

Sotiros

Still Light

Mother's Day

A Visit With Robert
Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J.Markopoulos

From the Notebook of...

Listening to the Space in My Room

Ruskin

Amor

The Sparrow Dream

Diminished Frame

Sotiros

The Suppliant

The Suppliant

Early Monthly Segments

Early Monthly Segments

Early Monthly Segments

The Hedge Theater

The Ground

Pitcher of Colored Light

My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure

Work Done

Spiracle

The Painting

Winged Dialogue

The Stoas

The Count of Days
On the Everyday Use of the Eyes of Death
First Weeks

Still Light

Wingseed

Efpsychi

Plan of Brussels

Palinode

Among the Eucalyptuses

From the Notebook of...

Shared Table

The Ground

The Ground

From the Notebook of...

From the Notebook of...

The Hedge Theater

The Hedge Theater

Shared Table

Listening to the Space in My Room

Shared Table

Listening to the Space in My Room

The Suppliant

“Der Klang, die Welt…”

Dedication: Bernice Hodges
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Sotiros Responds
Sotiros (Alone)
Sotiros in the Elements

Amor

Amor

The Painting
