While Robert Beavers’s body of work ranks among the most revered in the canon of avant-garde cinema, his films are more often spoken or written about than seen. Opportunities to view them here in the U.S. – especially all together – have come around no more than once in a blue moon, with the only large-scale retrospectives on these shores taking place at the Whitney Museum in 2005 and at various venues in the Bay Area in 2009.

Introduced by Peter Todd with Luke Fowler, Anthea Kennedy and Ian Wiblin in attendance.

“There is no language. There is no art. There is no knowledge. There is but film as film: the beginning and the eternal moment.” – Gregory J. Markopoulos

“In poetry, something else happens. Hard to say what it is. Presence, let’s say, soul or spirit, an empathy with whatever it is that’s dwelt upon, feeling for it – to the point of identification". – Margaret Tait

This October and November, Ute Aurand and Robert Beavers will be visiting Australia for the first time to present the program, The Films of Ute Aurand, Robert Beavers and Gregory J Markopoulos, at AGNSW on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 October, and at the Australian Cinémathèque at QAGOMA on Friday 3 November to Sunday 5 November. In Melbourne, Ute will present her films at ACMI on Tuesday 7 November, and Robert will introduce his films and Markopoulos's films at the Melbourne Cinematheque on Wednesday 8 November.