Robert Beavers

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Robert Beavers (* 1949 in Brookline , Massachusetts ) is an American avant-garde filmmaker who has lived and worked in Europe since the late 1960s.

Life

Beavers attended Deerfield Academy without graduating before moving to New York City in 1965 . There he began making films, but moved to Europe with his partner Gregory J. Markopoulos in 1967 . Here they made films and lived together until Markopoulos' death in 1992.

Both filmmakers restricted the publication of their films to the general public, but between 1980 and 1986 they showed their works on the Temenos, a location near Lyssaraia in Arcadia , Greece . After the death of his partner, Beavers founded Temenos, Inc. to preserve the memory of Markopoulos' work and films.

Beavers has been preparing his films for modern performance practice, including on television and as DVD, for years. He lives (2011) temporarily in Zumikon , Canton Zurich .

In March 2017, the Austrian Filmmuseum presented the first book about Beavers in the FilmmuseumSynemaPublikatioenn series.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1966: Spiracle , 16 mm, color, sound, 12 minutes.
  • 1972/1999: Work Done , 35 mm, color, sound, 22 minutes.
  • 1980: AMOR , 35 mm, color, sound, 15 minutes.
  • 1986 or 1990/2002: The Hedge Theater , 35 mm, color, sound, 19 minutes with excerpts from Borromini (1986) and San Marino / Il Sasetta (1987/1990).
  • 1967/2002: Parts of the cycle: My Hand outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure .
  • 2013: Listening to the Space in My Room , 35 mm, color, sound, 19 minutes.

Retrospectives

literature

  • Harry Tomicek: About the films by Gregory J. Markopoulos and Robert Beavers , Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna 1983?
  • Alexander Horwath / Austrian Film Museum (Ed.): Robert Beavers. The outstretched hand , Vienna: 2010.
  • Rebekah Rutkoff (Ed.), Robert Beavers , FilmmuseumSynemaPublications Volume 30, Vienna: 2017, ISBN 978-3-901644-69-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Publication by Robert Beavers , accessed on March 10, 2017.
  2. ↑ http://www.the-temenos.org/
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated January 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tate.org.uk
  4. ↑ Robert Beavers. The outstretched hand in the Austrian Film Museum accessed March 10, 2017
  5. ^ The outstretched hand of the lonely watchmaker in: FAZ of November 25, 2010, page 33
personal data
SURNAME Beavers, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American filmmaker and director
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Brookline , Massachusetts, United States