• Robert Beavers: The Sparrow Dream, 2022

  • Robert Beavers: Pitcher of Colored Light, 2000–07

  • Robert Beavers: Dedication: Bernice Hodges, 2000–07

Robert Beavers: Program 7

In Conversation

  • Susan Oxtoby is the Director of Film and Senior Film Curator at BAMPFA.

Robert Beavers’s recent films demonstrate a continuation of his interest in poetic form, while documenting the world around him. Pitcher of Colored Light is a loving portrait of his mother filmed through the seasons at her home in East Falmouth, Massachusetts. Filmed in a friend’s apartment in Brooklyn Heights, The Suppliant is a “portrait of a solitary life comforted by art” (Tony Pipolo, Artforum). Listening to the Space in My Room, filmed at Beavers’s home in Zumikon, Switzerland, portrays his landlords, who have spent decades of their shared lives in that country house. A number of these films (including The Sparrow Dream) explore places Beavers has lived and how each location has influenced how he sees. These late-period works—such as Dedication: Bernice Hodges—also offer a return to influential moments in the artist’s life.

Films in this Screening

Pitcher of Colored Light

Robert Beavers, United States, 2000–07

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  • 35mm
  • 23 mins
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  • BAMPFA

The Suppliant

Robert Beavers, United States, 2010

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  • Color
  • 35mm
  • 5 mins
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  • BAMPFA

Listening to the Space in My Room

Robert Beavers, United States, 2013

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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 19 mins
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  • Robert Beavers

Among the Eucalyptuses

Robert Beavers, Greece, 2017

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  • 16mm
  • Silent
  • 4 mins
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“Der Klang, die Welt . . .”

Robert Beavers, Switzerland, 2018

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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 5 mins
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  • Robert Beavers

The Sparrow Dream

Robert Beavers, Germany, United States, 2022

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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 29 mins
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Dedication: Bernice Hodges

Robert Beavers, United States, 2024

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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 4 mins
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  • Robert Beavers

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