Robert Beavers
Directing
January 1, 1949 (77 years old)
Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
19
Acting Credits
34
Directed
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
Filmography
Making films out of light and memory
2026
A Visit With Robert
2024
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
Mother's Day
2006
My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
2005
as Himself
Early Monthly Segments
2003
8
The Hedge Theater
2002
as Himself
6.5
Sotiros
2000
6.8
Birth of a Nation
1997
as Self
7
From the Notebook of...
1972
as Himself
6.3
Still Light
1971
6.5
Plan of Brussels
1968
6
Eros, O Basileus
1967
as Eros
4
Winged Dialogue
1967
Jabbok
1967
as Jabbok
The Mirror Garden
1967