• Robert Beavers: Early Monthly Segments, 1968–70/2002

  • Robert Beavers: Plan of Brussels, 1968/2000

  • Robert Beavers: Winged Dialogue, 1967/2000

Robert Beavers: Program 1

In Conversation

  • Rebekah Rutkoff is the author of Double Vision: The Cinema of Robert Beavers (2024).

Early Monthly Segments, filmed when Robert Beavers was eighteen and nineteen years old, is a stylized work of self-portraiture, depicting the filmmaker and his companion Gregory J. Markopoulos in their Swiss lodgings. “Winged Dialogue details with growing clarity the desperate beauty and sexuality of the body animated by its soul” (Tom Chomont). “In Plan of Brussels, Beavers filmed himself in a hotel room . . . while in rapid rhythmic cutting, and sometimes in superimposition, the phantasmagoria of people he met in Brussels and images from the streets flood his mind” (P. Adams Sitney). “The Count of Days is not an account so much as an accounting of the days in which three separate persons are related at points” (Tom Chomont).

Films in this Screening

Early Monthly Segments

Robert Beavers, Switzerland, Germany, Greece, 1968–70/2002

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  • Color
  • 35mm
  • Silent
  • 33 mins
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Winged Dialogue

Robert Beavers, Greece, 1967/2000

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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 3 mins
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  • Robert Beavers

Plan of Brussels

Robert Beavers, Belgium, 1968/2000

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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 18 mins
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  • Robert Beavers

The Count of Days

Robert Beavers, Switzerland, 1969/2001

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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 21 mins
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  • Robert Beavers

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