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Robert Beavers

Robert Beavers (born 1949 in Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American experimental filmmaker. He attended Deerfield Academy which he left before graduating to move to New York in 1965 to pursue filmmaking. He lived in New York until 1967 when he and his partner, Gregory Markopoulos, left the United States for Europe, where they continued to live and make films until Markopoulos' death in 1992.

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  • From Bliss to Garden Pieces: Gregory Markopoulos and Margaret Tait

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    Curated by Peter Todd, this programme is centred on two films by visionary filmmakers Gregory J. Markopoulos and Margaret Tait. Both films centre on place; interior in Bliss and exterior in Garden Pieces. It also celebrates the preservation, advocacy, and restoration necessary to continued circulation of such works. Bliss is by Markopoulos who, in the last ten years of his life, toiled over Eniaios, the ultimate reworking of his entire film oeuvre.

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    Saturday, July 13, 2024 - 18:00

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    Close-Up Cinema - London, Reino Unido

  • Together: Overlapping Histories, Friendships & Dialogues

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    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

    Dates: 

    Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 18:30

    Venue: 

    Close-Up Cinema - London, Reino Unido

  • Xcèntric: Tom Chomont / Robert Beavers

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    Spiracle (Robert Beavers, 1966)

    Intimacy, affections and creative exchanges between Tom Chomont and Robert Beavers are materialized in these films, in which the two filmmakers simultaneously develop the possibility of a lyrical cinema on the borderline between portrait and psychological drama, eroticism and formal stylization. Their frenetic meditations offer us complementary views of the splitting of the subject and the exploration of sexuality.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, January 28, 2024 - 18:30

    Venue: 

    Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain

  • The Films of Ute Aurand, Robert Beavers and Gregory J Markopoulos

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    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.

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    Thursday, October 26, 2023 (All day)
    Friday, October 27, 2023 (All day)
    Saturday, October 28, 2023 (All day)
    Sunday, October 29, 2023 (All day)
    Friday, November 3, 2023 (All day)
    Saturday, November 4, 2023 (All day)
    Sunday, November 5, 2023 (All day)
    Tuesday, November 7, 2023 (All day)
    Wednesday, November 8, 2023 (All day)

  • exf f. 2023

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    exf f. – days of experimental film frankfurt is an annual festival dedicated to experimental and avant-garde film in all its diversity, both historical and contemporary.
    Offering no competition, exf f. is defined by a non-hierarchical understanding of filmmaking and film culture, aiming in particular to showcase film practices that focus on analogue film (be it Super 8, 16mm, 35mm or 70mm).

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    Thursday, September 7, 2023 (All day) to Sunday, September 10, 2023 (All day)

  • NOTHINGTOSEENESS: All or Nothing

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    A Proposal to project (Viktoria Schmid, 2016)

    “You cannot apply the principles of painting to a medium that is not painting.” (Paul Sharits).

    Film has laws of its own, but along with the other arts in the period around 1960 it searched for certain “zero points” that didn't revolve around nothing, but the whole. This three-part film programme, curated by Alexander Horwath and Regina Schlagnitweit, includes works from the period between 1958 and 2021 – by Stephanie Barber, Yves-André Delubac, Hollis Frampton, Jorge Lorenzo, Ernst Schmidt Jr., Aldo Tambellini, Joyce Wieland and many more. It also offers rare insight into Gregory Markopoulos’s cinematic life’s work ENIAIOS (1947–91), presented by the film artist Robert Beavers.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, December 4, 2021 - 17:00

    Venue: 

    Akademie der Künste - Berlín, Alemania

  • The Melancholy Lens: Loss and Mourning in American Avant-Garde Cinema

    The impact of significant loss has exerted a powerful influence on several American avant-garde filmmakers. The Melancholy Lens offers a detailed look at biographical and psychological factors discernible in the art of Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Robert Beavers, and Ernie Gehr with an aim toward a greater understanding of their work.

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  • Meditaciones sobre el presente. Ute Aurand, Helga Fanderl, Jeannette Muñoz y Renate Sami

    The German and Chilean filmmakers Ute Aurand, Helga Fanderl, Jeannette Muñoz and Renate Sami are the subjects of the festival publication for the 14th edition of Punto de Vista. These four filmmakers, who work in the avant-garde, experimental film tradition, have been widely recognized at prestigious international festivals such as Berlinale, Oberhausen, NYFF and Rotterdam.

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