Robert Beavers: Filmmaker in Residence
January 30–February 7, 2026
Filmmaker Robert Beavers joins us for a complete retrospective of his films, including his eighteen-film cycle, My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure (1967–2002), plus the seven films he has released since 2007. His meticulously crafted films have a remarkable lyricism and exquisite beauty.
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Robert Beavers: Early Monthly Segments, 1968–70/2002
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Robert Beavers: The Ground, 1993-2001
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Robert Beavers: The Sparrow Dream, 2022
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Robert Beavers: Sotiros, 1976–78/96
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Robert Beavers: Ruskin, 1975/97
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Films - Past
Films - Past
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Upcoming Films
Robert Beavers: Program 1
Friday, January 30, 7 PMRobert Beavers and Rebekah Rutkoff in ConversationView DetailsThe first four films in Robert Beavers’s extraordinary cycle encompass elements of self-portraiture, eroticism, and charged allusion, including Early Monthly Segments and Winged Dialogue, filmed when Beavers was eighteen and nineteen years old, which depict the filmmaker and his companion Gregory J. Markopoulos.
Robert Beavers: Program 2
Saturday, January 31, 2 PMRobert Beavers and Rebekah Rutkoff in ConversationView DetailsThree films from Robert Beavers’s eighteen-film cycle, originally filmed in 1970 and remastered in 2001.
Robert Beavers: Program 3
Saturday, January 31, 4:30 PMRobert Beavers and Christopher Scott in ConversationView DetailsIn these two nuanced and structurally self-reflexive works, From the Notebook of . . . and The Painting, Robert Beavers contemplates the world around him and reflects on the nature and processes of art.
Robert Beavers: Program 4
Sunday, February 1, 3:30 PMRobert Beavers and Erik Ulman in ConversationView DetailsThese three films from Robert Beavers’s film cycle create connections between varied times and places, and between old-world artisanal practices and the craft of filmmaking.
Robert Beavers: Program 5
Thursday, February 5, 7 PMRobert Beavers and Ken Ueno in ConversationView DetailsSotiros incorporates narrative film devices such as intertitle cards into a metaphorical dialogue between two male lovers. In Efpsychi we hear a word spoken, teleftea, meaning the last (one). Wingseed draws comparisons between the pastoral beauty of a Greek hillside and that of the male form.
Mosse Lecture: Robert Beavers
Free Admission
Friday, February 6, 3:30 PMRobert Beavers and Deniz Göktürk in ConversationView DetailsThe Berlin-based filmmaker will present Diminished Frame and The Sparrow Dream and discuss the relationship of history, memory, and place in his films.
Robert Beavers: Program 6
Friday, February 6, 7 PMRobert Beavers and Susan Oxtoby in ConversationView DetailsThe final three works in Robert Beavers’s film cycle—The Hedge Theater, The Stoas, and The Ground—offer images of ineffable beauty, unspoken eloquence, and an expression of devotional love.
Robert Beavers: Program 7
Saturday, February 7, 7 PMRobert Beavers and Susan Oxtoby in ConversationView DetailsRobert Beavers’s seven works made after his film cycle demonstrate his continued interest in the poetic form and emotions linked to a sense of home or place, including his delicate portrait of his mother, Pitcher of Colored Light, and the graceful The Suppliant.