[url=http://expcinema.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=67&I... To the Winged Distance: Films by Robert Beavers[/url]

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The [url=http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/tothewingeddistancefi... ]Tate Modern Gallery[/url] will hold a retrospective of [b]Robert Beavers[/b]' works from February 2nd to the 25th. Beavers (USA, 1949) emigrated to Europe in the late sixties, with his lifetime companion [b]Gregory Markopoulos[/b], and his work has been rarely screened until very recently. Beavers' films "are at once lyrical and rigorous, sensuous and complex. Whilst communicating his response to the landscapes, architecture and traditions of the Mediterranean and Alpine countries in which they were filmed, they also incorporate deeply personal and aesthetic themes."[br /]

The retrospective is divided in two series of programmes: the [i]To the winged distance[/i] series, that will display selected works, and the [i]My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure[/i] series that will screen the whole cycle of the same name, composed by eighteen films. Beavers will introduce the first programme (February 2nd) and will have a discussion with critic [b]P.Adams Sitney[/b] ([i]Visionary Film[/i]) on February 4th, who will previously introduce the screening. 

This retrospective is curated by [url=http://www.secretcinema.co.uk/ ]Mark Webber[/url].