The UC Berkeley Department of German and BAMPFA are pleased to host Robert Beavers’s Mosse Lecture. Beavers has worked as an artist and made poetic films since 1966. He is the cinematographer, editor, and creative force behind his films, which are highly regarded by film critics, curators, fellow artists, and filmgoers. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1949, he has resided in Europe since 1967 and made Berlin his home for the past two decades. Beavers will speak about his film aesthetic and discuss the relationship of history, memory, and place in his work. The lecture includes Diminished Frame, from the early part of his career, and The Sparrow Dream, which he completed in 2022.

This annual lecture is generously supported by the Mosse Foundation and reflects the foundation’s mission to promote cultural exchange and political engagement. The Mosse Lectures were originally founded in 1997 at Humboldt University in Berlin to commemorate the history of the Mosse family, their patronage of the arts, and their contributions to intellectual life through the German-Jewish publishing house run by Rudolf Mosse and the newspaper Berliner Tageblatt.