Movies
- 1972
From the Notebook of...
From the Notebook of...6.11972HD
"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...
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
- 2010
The Suppliant
The Suppliant02010HD
“My filming for The Suppliant was done in February 2003, while a guest in the Brooklyn Heights apartment of Jacques Dehornois. When I recollect...
- 2024
Dedication: Bernice Hodges
Dedication: Bernice Hodges02024HD
“I walked into Bernice Hodges’s garden when I was seven years old and asked her to read to me. She was in her mid-seventies. Out of this...
- 2003
Early Monthly Segments
Early Monthly Segments02003HD
Early Monthly Segments, filmed when Beavers was 18 and 19 years old, now forms the opening to his film cycle, "My Hand Outstretched to the Winged...
- 2016
Shared Table
Shared Table02016HD
“Last August, several filmmakers joined me to repair the splices in Markopoulos’s Eniaios. I interrupted our work for a moment; the...
- 1967
Eros, O Basileus
Eros, O Basileus11967HD
Structured in nine tableaux each a study of a simple action or situation involving a lone, naked figure, the blind Eros, searching for fulfilment,...
- 2017
Among the Eucalyptuses
Among the Eucalyptuses02017HD
Late afternoon quiet and a silent figure seated on a bench; the old factories and machinery, warehouses and train lines are part of Greece, now...
- 1983
Efpsychi
Efpsychi01983HD
“The details of the young actor’s face – his eyes, eyebrows, earlobe, chin, etc. – are set opposite the old buildings in the...
- 2001
The Ground
The Ground62001HD
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....
- 1968
Plan of Brussels
Plan of Brussels01968HD
Shedding all traces of narrative in Plan of Brussels, Beavers filmed himself in a hotel room, both at his work desk and lying naked on the bed, while...
- 2002
The Hedge Theater
The Hedge Theater6.42002HD
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...
- 1997
The Stoas
The Stoas01997HD
“The title refers to the colonnades that led to the shady groves of the ancient Lyceum, here remembered in shots of industrial arcades, bathed...
- 1967
Jabbok
Jabbok01967HD
The story of Jacob wrestling the angel at the stream called Jabbok.
- 1967
On the Everyday Use of the Eyes of Death
On the Everyday Use of the Eyes of Death01967HD
Filmed in Italy (Rome), on Agfa-Gaevert reversal film. Beavers destroyed the camera original.
- 2000
Sotiros
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Beavers distilled the 26-minute Sotiros in 1996 from an original 50-minute trilogy. Filmed in Athens and Peloponnesus in Greece as well as in...
- 2018
Cape Cod
Cape Cod02018HD
- 1970
Diminished Frame
Diminished Frame01970HD
“There is a balance between a sense of the past seen in the views of West Berlin, filmed in black & white, and a sense of the present in...
- 2022
The Sparrow Dream
The Sparrow Dream02022HD
Beavers’ starting point for this film was a question about how the places where he has lived influences how he sees. Beavers return to one or...
- 1971
Still Light
Still Light01971HD
Landscape and desire. Details from the Greek island of Hydra, a figure, a study in light and place and the act of creation. The first half of the...