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Robert Beavers

Robert Beavers (born 1949 in Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American experimental filmmaker. He attended Deerfield Academy which he left before graduating to move to New York in 1965 to pursue filmmaking. He lived in New York until 1967 when he and his partner, Gregory Markopoulos, left the United States for Europe, where they continued to live and make films until Markopoulos' death in 1992.

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Light Movement 23: OPEN DOORS curated by Ute Aurand (Berlin) and Peter Todd (London)

By Anonymous on Mon, 17/07/2017 - 09:06

Every year or two Ute Aurand and Peter Todd meet up to continue a filmic conversation. OPEN DOORS is their third program curated together. A film by the Scottish filmmaker Margaret Tait is often shown as a reference to how Aurand and Todd's joint interest in her work fIrst brought them together. In OPEN DOORS they have selected films in which the filmmakers' observations and feelings become visible beyond obvious narratives.
Dates:
Sunday, July 23, 2017 - 20:00
Venue:
SPEKTRUM
Xcèntric: On the meaning of construction. Robert Beavers

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 31/01/2017 - 10:02

With the presence of the filmmaker.

For Robert Beavers, the camera is not a simple recording device; it has a very lively quality that surrounds the elements of filming. This session presents two films he made in the 1970s based on a 15th-century painting and the writings of John Ruskin. The construction of images and sounds in these works connects the present with the past and the past with the present in a continual toing and froing.

Dates:
Thursday, February 9, 2017 - 20:00
Venue:
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
Cineinfinito #10: Robert Beavers

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 31/01/2017 - 09:55

For Robert Beavers, the camera is not a simple recording device; it has a very lively quality that surrounds the elements of filming. This session presents two films he made in the 1970s based on a 15th-century painting and the writings of John Ruskin. The construction of images and sounds in these works connects the present with the past and the past with the present in a continual toing and froing.
Dates:
Saturday, February 11, 2017 - 17:00
Venue:
Filmoteca de Cantabria
Austrian Film Museum - In Person: Robert Beavers

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 26/01/2017 - 11:39

"The goal is for the projected image to have the same force of awakening sight as any other great image."

Over five decades, American filmmaker Robert Beavers (*1949) has come closer to this self-set goal than anyone else in his métier. Those fortunate enough to have experienced the complete retrospective of Beavers' work organized by the Austrian Film Museum in the autumn of 2010 are familiar with the sensory intoxication and the intensity of visual and aural experiences these works give rise to. They offer an immersion into the beauty and intelligence of craft – both when it comes to the places and activities recorded by Beavers (anywhere between Florence and Massachusetts) and in relation to his own film craft shining in the projection.

Dates:
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 - 20:15
Thursday, March 9, 2017 - 20:15
Venue:
Austrian Film Museum
Robert Beavers
In a career spanning five decades, Robert Beavers has distinguished himself as one of the most important American avant-garde filmmakers. From My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure, his cycle of 18 films made across Europe since 1967, to Pitcher of Colored Light (2007) and The Suppliant (2010), intimate portraits shot in the U.S., Beavers has produced a deeply original film language framed by his use of colored filters and mattes.
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Austrian Film Museum
Courtisane Festival 2016

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 07/03/2016 - 17:01

The fifteenth edition of Courtisane Festival (March 23-27, Ghent, Belgium) focuses on the figures of Palestinian filmmaker Michel Khleifi and the Scottish artist, filmmaker and musician Luke Fowler, protagonists of its 'Artists in focus' section. Each filmmaker will be the protagonist of a series of different events including partial retrospectives of their work, talks, and in the case of Fowler, a musical performance with Richard Youngs and Markus Schmickler.
Dates:
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 (All day) to Sunday, March 27, 2016 (All day)
Xcèntric: Robert Beavers - The Hand Outstreched

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 09/02/2016 - 09:26

My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure is the title of the cycle that brings together 18 films by Robert Beavers, produced between 1967 and 2001. This session presents three films from each of the three parts that make up the cycle, in which the filmmaker works manually, impressing his gestures on both the filming and the editing.

In Early Monthly Segments, Beavers portrays himself and shows his working method by focusing on the cinematographic device. In Work Done he uses metaphor and visual allusion to generate correspondences between filmic procedures and the archetypal forms of artisan work. In AMOR he presents tailoring as a metaphor of the emotions surrounding love, separation and the metonymic twinning of objects.

Dates:
Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 20:00
Venue:
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
Light Movement 11

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 28/01/2016 - 08:47

Light Movement 11 brings together a selection of filmmakers, most of whom have had screenings in the series over 2015. This is a great chance to see a selection of films which convey the general dirrection of the series so far, all shown in their original formats. We also welcome several of these filmmakers to the screening in person.

Plus some music in the bar from DJ mfx (reboot fm)

Dates:
Friday, January 29, 2016 - 19:30
Venue:
SPEKTRUM
FILM IMPLOSION! Experiments in Swiss Cinema and Moving Images

By Marcos Ortega on Sat, 14/11/2015 - 13:05

As the first exhibition dedicated to experimental Swiss cinema, Film Implosion! sheds light on a little known aspect of art history in Switzerland. It presents a wide panorama of genre practices within the medium of cinema more specifically, but also video work, from the 1960ʼs to today. Through formal interventions directly on the celluloid, various in-situ installations, unconventional documentaries, political, feminist, animated, and fiction films, all these artists challenged the traditional codes of cinema.

For the past four years, and with the help of the SNF (Swiss National Fund), researchers François Bovier, Adeena Mey, Fred Truniger, and Thomas Schärer have been investigating experimental cinema in Switzerland. From this considerable excavating and mapping work, stems Fri Artʼs proposal for the firstever exhibition on this subject. For the most part unseen, some 70 artworks, in digital or 16-mm format and signed by artists ranging from Fredi M. Murer, Dieter Meier, Carole Roussopoulos, Dieter Roth, HHK Schoenherr, Hannes Schüpbach, or Peter Stämpfli will be shown. The exhibition will also include video works, installations, and para-filmic objects spanning 50 years of radical creativity.

Dates:
Saturday, November 21, 2015 (All day) to Sunday, February 21, 2016 (All day)
Venue:
Fri Art Kunsthalle
Personal Space: Films by Aurand and Beavers

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 15/09/2015 - 09:17

The filmmakers Robert Beavers (b. 1949) and Ute Aurand (b. 1957) are internationally known for their evocative portraits of people and places: Beavers has been making films since 1966 and retrospectives of his work have been organized for the Whitney Museum and the Tate Modern, among others. Aurand’s work explores space and human relations through astute, small gestures and purposeful sound. Her films, sometimes likened to the film diaries of Marie Menken and Jonas Mekas, have recently been featured at Tate Modern and the Harvard Film Archive.
Dates:
Saturday, October 10, 2015 (All day)
Sunday, October 11, 2015 (All day)
Venue:
National Gallery of Art