The best Robert Beavers’s movies

Robert Beavers

Robert Beavers

01/01/1949 (75 años)
We present our ranking of the best Robert Beavers’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Robert Beavers.

Birth of a Nation

Birth of a Nation
7.1/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/1997
  • Character: Himself
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

From the Notebook of...

From the Notebook of...
6.7/10
  • Release: 06/11/1971
  • Character: Himself
"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 elements suggest an implicit comparison between the treatment of space in Renaissance art and the moving image. The film marks a critical development in the artist's work in that he repeatedly employs a series of rapid pans and upward tilts along the city's buildings or facades, often integrating glimpses of his own face. As Beavers notes in his writing on the film, the camera movements are tied to the filmmakers' presence and suggests his investigative gaze.

The Hedge Theater

The Hedge Theater
6.9/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 09/09/2003
  • Character: Himself
Beavers shot The Hedge Theatre in Rome in the 1980s. It is an intimate film inspired by the Baroque architecture and stone carvings of Francesco Borromini and St. Martin and the Beggar, a painting by the Sienese painter Il Sassetta. Beavers’ montage contrasts the sensuous softness of winter light with the lush green growth brought by spring rains. Each shot and each source of sound is steeped in meaning and placed within the film’s structure with exacting skill to build a poetic relationship between image and sound.

Plan of Brussels

Plan of Brussels
  • Release: 01/01/1968
P. Adams Sitney: ‘Beavers filmed himself in a hotel room, both at his work desk and lying naked on the bed, while in rapid rhythmic cutting, and sometime in superimposition, the phantasmagoria of people he met in Brussels and images from the streets flood his mind’.

Cape Cod

Cape Cod
  • Release: 13/07/2018
  • Character: himself

Eros, O Basileus

Eros, O Basileus
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/04/1967
  • Character: Eros
Structured in nine tableaux each a study of a simple action or situation involving a lone, naked figure, the blind Eros, searching for fulfilment, for self. The objects he touches - books, paintings - can be seen as icons of the creative spirit; there is also a motor cycle and film equipment. In succeeding scenes he appears to try on identities offered by institutional doctrines of religion and social traditions of (overt) masculinity. Much of the film was constructed in-camera with a small amount of editing afterwards. An innovation was the use of in-camera fade-outs as phrase markers, not as terminal points, within a single set-up or shot.

Listening to the Space in My Room

Listening to the Space in My Room
6.6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 10/09/2013
  • Character: Himself
Ostensibly a portrait of a place where the artist had resided until recently, the new film by Robert Beavers conjures not only the memory but also the physical presence of those who have previously stayed there. Adhering to a solitary intimacy while simultaneously acting as an ode to human endeavour and shared impulses toward fulfillment through art, Listening to the Space in my Room is a moving testament to existence (whose traces are found in literature, music, filmmaking, gardening) and our endless search for meaning and authenticity. The film's precise yet enigmatic sound-image construction carries a rare emotional weight.

Early Monthly Segments

Early Monthly Segments
  • Release: 09/09/2003
Scenes of the life of Robert Beavers and Gregory Markopoulos

Jabbok

Jabbok
  • Release: 01/01/1967
  • Character: Jabbok
The story of Jacob wrestling the angel at the stream called Jabbok.

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