
Known for
Directing
Born
January 1, 1949 (age 77)
Birthplace
Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Robert Beavers (born 1949) is an American experimental filmmaker whose work stands among the most significant in postwar avant-garde cinema. He is best known for My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure, an 18-film cycle spanning decades of work, much of it later re-edited.
Beavers developed a distinctive visual language using hand-cut mattes, filters, and precise sound–image structures, often focusing on craft and manual labor as metaphors for filmmaking itself. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, he began making films in New York before moving to Europe in 1967 with his partner, Gregory J. Markopoulos. Together they withdrew their films from distribution, presenting...
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as Himself, Director
2026
2024
Director
2024
2022
Director
2018
as himself
2018
Director
2017
Director
2016
Editor, Director, Cinematography
2014
Director
2013
as Himself, Director, Cinematography, Editor
2010
as Self - director
2010
Director, Cinematography, Editor
2008
as Ice skater
2007
Director
2006
2005
as Himself, Director, Editor, Cinematography, Sound
2003
Cinematography, Editor, Director
2002
as Himself, Director, Cinematography, Editor
2001
Director, Cinematography, Editor
2000
Director
1999
1997
Director
1997
as Self
1985
Director