Robert Beavers

ActorDirectorCrewEditorSound Jan 1 (age 77) Brookline, Massachusetts, USA 1966–2026 (60 year career)

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Biography

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 i…

Known For

Film

From the Notebook of...

Himself

Film

The Ground

Himself

Film

The Hedge Theater

Himself

Film

AMOR

Cinematography

Film

Pitcher of Colored Light

Cinematography

Film

Birth of a Nation

Self

Film

Ruskin

Director

Film

Work Done

Director

Filmography

Acting (23)

Movies (23)

Making films out of light and memory

2026

A Visit With Robert

2024

Dedication: Bernice Hodges

2024

as Himself

Cape Cod

2018

as himself

Listening to the Space in My Room

2013

as Himself

8.5

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

2010

as Self - director

Zuoz

2008

as Ice skater

6.0

Mother's Day

2006

My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure

2005

as Himself

10.0

My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure

2005

as Himself

6.0

Early Monthly Segments

The Hedge Theater

as Himself

The Ground

as Himself

Sotiros

Laboratorium Anthology

1999

Birth of a Nation

1997

as Self

7.0

From the Notebook of...

as Himself

Still Light

Plan of Brussels

Jabbok

as Jabbok

Winged Dialogue

Eros, O Basileus

as Eros

The Mirror Garden

Crew (74)

Movies (74)

Dedication: Bernice Hodges

2024

Director

The Sparrow Dream

2022

Director

“Der Klang, die Welt…”

2018

Director

7.0

Among the Eucalyptuses

2017

Director

6.0

Shared Table

2016

Cinematography

Shared Table

2016

Director

Shared Table

2016

Editor

Shared Table

2016

Sound

First Weeks

2014

Director

Listening to the Space in My Room

2013

Cinematography

8.5

Listening to the Space in My Room

2013

Director

8.5

Listening to the Space in My Room

Editor

The Suppliant

Cinematography

The Suppliant

Director

The Suppliant

Editor

Pitcher of Colored Light

2007

Cinematography

6.9

Pitcher of Colored Light

2007

Director

6.9

Pitcher of Colored Light

2007

Editor

6.9

Pitcher of Colored Light

2007

Sound

6.9

My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure

2005

Cinematography

10.0

My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure

2005

Director

10.0

My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure

2005

Editor

10.0

My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure

2005

Sound

10.0

My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure

2005

Cinematography

6.0

My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure

2005

Director

6.0

My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure

2005

Editor

6.0

My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure

2005

Sound

6.0

Early Monthly Segments

2003

Cinematography

8.0

Early Monthly Segments

2003

Director

8.0

Early Monthly Segments

2003

Editor

8.0

Early Monthly Segments

Sound

The Hedge Theater

Cinematography

The Hedge Theater

Director

The Hedge Theater

Editor

The Hedge Theater

Sound

The Ground

Cinematography

The Ground

Director

The Ground

Editor

The Ground

Sound

Sotiros

Cinematography

Sotiros

Director

Sotiros

Editor

Sotiros

Sound

The Stoas

Director

Wingseed

Director

Efpsychi

Director

AMOR

Cinematography

AMOR

Director

AMOR

Editor

AMOR

Sound

Sotiros in the Elements

1978

Director

Sotiros (Alone)

1978

Director

Sotiros Responds

1977

Director

Ruskin

Director

Work Done

Director

From the Notebook of...

1972

Cinematography

6.3

From the Notebook of...

1972

Director

6.3

From the Notebook of...

1972

Editor

6.3

From the Notebook of...

Sound

The Painting

Cinematography

The Painting

Director

The Painting

Editor

Still Light

Director

Diminished Frame

Director

Palinode

Director

The Count of Days

Director

View

Director

Plan of Brussels

1968

Director

7.0

Spiracle

1967

Director

Winged Dialogue

1967

Cinematography

Winged Dialogue

1967

Director

Winged Dialogue

1967

Editor

Winged Dialogue

1967

Sound

On the Everyday Use of the Eyes of Death

1966

Director