Work Done transports the viewer to a variety of times and places. Old-world customs (ice blocks used for refrigeration, the ancient craft of bookbinding, and the preparation of pig's-blood pancakes) are juxtaposed with contemporary urban scenes. Color filters heighten the contrast between the natural and man-made worlds. Ruskin foregrounds Beavers's love of literature, architecture, and landscape. (The filmmaker's hand rests on a volume of John Ruskin's The Stones of Venice, and much of the film is shot in the environs of Venice, London, and the Swiss Alps.) Elegant cinematography and innovative sound construction-Beavers's films are as beautiful to listen to as they are to see-build the foundation of this ode to an earlier era.

Sotiros incorporates narrative film devices such as intertitle cards into a metaphorical dialogue between two male lovers, revealed largely through the luminous depiction of everyday objects in their shared world. A color palette of pastels and golden hues and the strains of Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck enrich the film's emotional character. AMOR uses themes of cutting and sewing as metaphors. Cloth is cut and fabric is sewn; shrubs are trimmed and hedges form majestic garden archways; and a male figure claps his hands as if to signal a sync cue on which there is a visual cut. Central to this work are the complex emotions surrounding love, separation, and the metonymic twinning of objects, including that of edited image and sutured sound.