Direction: Robert Beavers

Direction Robert Beavers

Direction Robert Beavers

Cast Gregory J. Markopoulos

Plot Markopoulos is shown by Beavers at the beach with a fast editing.

Direction Robert Beavers

Cast Robert Beavers · Gregory J. Markopoulos

Plot From the Notebook of ... was shot in Florence and takes as its point of departure Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks and Paul Valéry's essay on da Vinci's process. These two...

Direction Robert Beavers

Plot A moving testament to existences past and present, this portrait of a space once inhabited by filmmaker Robert Beavers adheres to a precise, yet enigmatic sound-image construction that carries rare...

Direction Robert Beavers

Plot What lives in the space between the stones, in the space cupped between my hand and my chest? Filmmaker/stonemason. A tower or ruin of remembrance. With each swing of the...

Direction Robert Beavers

Plot Filmed in Italy (Venice), Switzerland (the Grisons) and England (London). Ruskin visits the sites of John Ruskin's work: London, the Alps and, above all, Venice, where the camera's attention to...

Direction Robert Beavers

Cast Robert Beavers · Gregory J. Markopoulos

Direction Robert Beavers

Plot An elder man, statues and buildings.

Direction Robert Beavers

Cast Gregory J. Markopoulos

Plot The Painting intercuts shots of traffic navigating the old-world remnants of downtown Bern, Switzerland, with details from a 15th-century altarpiece, “The Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus”.

Direction Robert Beavers

Direction Robert Beavers

Plot The filmmaker's mother's house and garden, examining the shadowy atmosphere of loneliness and stillness.

Direction Robert Beavers

Cast Robert Beavers

Plot The title refers to the colonnades that led to the shady groves of the ancient Lyceum, here remembered in shots of industrial arcades, bathed in golden morning light, as quietly...

Direction Robert Beavers

Plot Last August, several filmmakers joined me to repair the splices in Markopoulos’s Eniaios. I interrupted our work for a moment; the generosity of James, Silvia, Nina, Alexandre and Julia prompted...

Direction Robert Beavers

Cast Robert Beavers · Gregory J. Markopoulos · Tom Chomont

Plot Early Monthly Segments, filmed when Beavers was 18 and 19 years old, is a highly stylized work of self-portraiture, depicting filmmaker and companion Gregory J. Markopoulos in their Swiss apartment....

Direction Robert Beavers

Plot Portrait studies of Mrs. Hodges, Gail Beavers (the filmmaker’s sister) and Gregory J. Markopoulos.

Direction Robert Beavers

Plot The film is seen as though upon and through the structure of its spiritual partitions. One might say that there are three elements or levels to the images: narrative, descriptive...

Direction Robert Beavers

Cast Vassili Tsindoukidis

Plot The details of the young actor’s face – his eyes, eyebrows, earlobe, chin, etc. – are set opposite the old buildings in the market quarter of Athens, where every street...

Direction Robert Beavers

Plot “Why have I returned to film these places, which I left so many years ago? For the deep view it gives now.” (Robert Beavers, July 2022) Beavers’ starting point for...

Direction Robert Beavers

Direction Robert Beavers

Cast Robert Beavers