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Robert Beavers
Sign in to saveAmerican filmmaker (born 1949)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Helga Fanderl
- Aei Kalon
- Temenos, 1986
- Still light
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Film & TV
Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
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…
Known for
- Making films out of light and memory2026
- A Visit With Robert2024
- Cape Cod — himself2018
- Listening to the Space in My Room — Himself2013
- Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J. Markopoulos — Self - director2010
- Zuoz — Ice skater2008
- Mother's Day2006
- My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure — Himself2005
- Early Monthly Segments2003
- The Hedge Theater — Himself2002
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- Japan
- Active from
- 1964
Discography
- Viva! Beavers1968
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 12
- Total plays
- 644
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brookline
- Occupation
- film director
- Educated at
- Deerfield Academy
- Image
- Robert Beavers 2019.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1949-01-01
- has works in the collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
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