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Robert Beavers

Robert Beavers

ActorDirectorEditorCrewSound Jan 1 (age 77) Brookline, Massachusetts, USA 1967–2024 (57 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

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From the Notebook of...

Himself
The Ground
Film

The Ground

Cinematography
The Hedge Theater
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The Hedge Theater

Himself
Amor
Film

Amor

Director
Pitcher of Colored Light
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Pitcher of Colored Light

Director
Ruskin
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Ruskin

Director
Birth of a Nation
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Birth of a Nation

Self
Listening to the Space in My Room
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Listening to the Space in My Room

Himself

Filmography