• Robert Beavers: Diminished Frame, 1970/2001

  • Robert Beavers: Palinode, 1970/2001

  • Robert Beavers: Still Light, 1970/2001

Robert Beavers: Program 2

In Conversation

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

“In Palinode a disk-shaped matte continually shifting in and out of focus alternately blocks part of the image or contains it. Its respiratory rhythm matches musical fragments of Wladimir Vogel’s Wagadu, as the camera studies a middle-aged male singer in Zurich, singing, eating, window shopping, meeting a young girl” (P. Adams Sitney). “There is a balance in Diminished Frame between a sense of the past seen in the views of West Berlin, filmed in black-and-white, and a sense of the present in which I filmed myself showing how the color is being created by placing filters in the camera’s aperture” (Robert Beavers). “The first half of Still Light explores delicate nuances of lighting, color, and depth as Beavers shoots the face of a young man in various locales on the Greek island of Hydra. . . . The second half was shot in the London flat of Nigel Gosling” (Ed Halter, New York Press).

Films in this Screening

Palinode

Robert Beavers, Switzerland, 1970/2001

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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 21 mins
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  • Robert Beavers

Diminished Frame

Robert Beavers, Germany, 1970/2001

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  • B&W/Color
  • 16mm
  • 24 mins
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  • Robert Beavers

Still Light

Robert Beavers, Greece, 1970/2001

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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 25 mins
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  • Robert Beavers

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