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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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Kino Arsenal: Three Films by Robert Beavers

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 11/01/2022 - 03:26

Kino Arsenal (Berlin) is continuing its series of screenings dedicated to the legacy of Amos Vogel. The third section, "The gatekeepers exist to be overthrown," Amos Vogel – Repeats and Responses (III), includes the screening of three films by Robert Beavers:

Dates:
Saturday, January 29, 2022 - 20:00
Venue:
Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art - Berlin, Germany
NOTHINGTOSEENESS: All or Nothing

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 30/11/2021 - 06:20

“You cannot apply the principles of painting to a medium that is not painting.” (Paul Sharits).

Film has laws of its own, but along with the other arts in the period around 1960 it searched for certain “zero points” that didn't revolve around nothing, but the whole. This three-part film programme, curated by Alexander Horwath and Regina Schlagnitweit, includes works from the period between 1958 and 2021 – by Stephanie Barber, Yves-André Delubac, Hollis Frampton, Jorge Lorenzo, Ernst Schmidt Jr., Aldo Tambellini, Joyce Wieland and many more. It also offers rare insight into Gregory Markopoulos’s cinematic life’s work ENIAIOS (1947–91), presented by the film artist Robert Beavers.

Dates:
Saturday, December 4, 2021 - 17:00
Venue:
Akademie der Künste - Berlín, Germany
The Melancholy Lens: Loss and Mourning in American Avant-Garde Cinema
The impact of significant loss has exerted a powerful influence on several American avant-garde filmmakers. The Melancholy Lens offers a detailed look at biographical and psychological factors discernible in the art of Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Robert Beavers, and Ernie Gehr with an aim toward a greater understanding of their work.
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Meditaciones sobre el presente. Ute Aurand, Helga Fanderl, Jeannette Muñoz y Renate Sami
The German and Chilean filmmakers Ute Aurand, Helga Fanderl, Jeannette Muñoz and Renate Sami are the subjects of the festival publication for the 14th edition of Punto de Vista. These four filmmakers, who work in the avant-garde, experimental film tradition, have been widely recognized at prestigious international festivals such as Berlinale, Oberhausen, NYFF and Rotterdam.
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Publisher:
Punto de Vista
Deutschen Filmmuseum Frankfurt: Ute Aurand and Robert Beavers

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 02/09/2019 - 02:09

18:00 Films by Robert Beavers
Dates:
Saturday, September 14, 2019 - 18:00 to Sunday, September 15, 2019 - 21:55
Venue:
Deutschen Filmmuseum Frankfurt - Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Minor Cinema: Experimental Film in Switzerland
An archeology of Swiss experimental film A comprehensive theoretical book, "Minor Cinema: Experimental Film in Switzerland" traces the evolution of Swiss experimental film addressing the relationships between contemporary art and underground movies, formal and amateur films, video, expanded cinema, and performances, national scene and international influences, with a special focus on how art schools and festivals were decisive for its development.
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Publisher:
JRP Ringier
Freeze-Frame, a Vanitas of Light

By Marcos Ortega on Sat, 20/04/2019 - 14:34

'Freeze-Frame, a Vanitas of Light' investigates in what form film can exist without the physical presence of film. The starting point is the local history of Wetteren, where in the 1960s were four cinemas; Cinema Roxy, Cinema Nova, Cinema Max and Cinema Forum. The socialists, liberals and Catholics, each had their own cinema and one was there for the 'naughty' films. Now that these cinemas have disappeared from the street scene, the question remains whether the cinematic is still present in Wetteren, or can be, and how an idea of film can exist without actually being present as a film.
Dates:
Sunday, April 21, 2019 (All day) to Sunday, May 26, 2019 (All day)
Venue:
Loods12 - Wetteren, Belgium
Kunstmuseum Basel: Robert Beavers

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 19/03/2019 - 15:09

Robert Beavers (born 1949) is considered one of the most important representatives of American experimental film. The themes of his films crystallize from his study of literature, philosophy, visual arts, music and architecture; But they also come from spontaneous visual experiences or are inspired by ideas that occupy the filmmaker for long periods of time.
Dates:
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 - 18:30
Venue:
Kunstmuseum Basel - Basel, Switzerland
Punto de Vista 2019

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 08/03/2019 - 02:34

The 2019 edition of Punto de Vista, Navarra's International Documentary Film Festival (March 11-16, Pamplona) features this year a programme with a strong presence of avan-garde films. One of the main protagonists of this edition will be the figure od the recently passed away Jonathan Schwartz, with a a retrospective of his work and the publication of the book 'To light, to love, to time: Jonathan Schwartz'.
Dates:
Monday, March 11, 2019 (All day) to Saturday, March 16, 2019 (All day)
Recent Films by Robert Beavers: The Poetry of Living Space

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 25/10/2018 - 02:49

Robert Beavers is a master of 16mm personal filmmaking whose films (From the Notebook of... 1971/1998, etc.) are landmarks of independent cinema. Following his magnum opus 18-film cycle, My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure, Beavers released several works that are considered among the great films of recent decades. Beavers’ focus is on intimate spaces and how they reflect qualities of human character and life.
Dates:
Friday, October 26, 2018 - 20:30
Venue:
REDCAT - Los Angeles, United States