“Since leaving the United States in 1967, Robert Beavers has labored in relative isolation on works whose goal ‘is for the projected film image to have the same force of awakening sight as any other great image.' His meticulously crafted films are at once lyrical and rigorous, sensuous and complex. Whilst communicating his response to the landscapes, architecture, and traditions of the Mediterranean and Alpine countries in which they were filmed, they also incorporate deeply personal and aesthetic themes. Rarely seen in public, Robert Beavers's remarkable body of work is a celebration of light, life, and color” (Mark Webber, Tate Modern, London). Early Monthly Segments consists of early experiments with cinematic techniques and diaristic portraits of Beavers's life with his partner Gregory Markopoulos in Europe. In The Ground, Beavers links the filmmaker and stonemason: “With each swing of the hammer I cut into the image and the sound rises from the chisel.” Pitcher of Colored Light depicts his mother's house and garden, revealing “the mixture of loneliness and peace that exists here.”

Early Monthly Segments (U.S., 1968–70/2002, 33 mins, Silent, 16mm). The Ground (U.S., 1993/2001, 20 mins, 35mm). Pitcher of Colored Light (U.S./Switzerland, 2007, 23.5 mins, 16mm)