Robert Beavers Retrospective at Anthology Film Archives

On the occasion of the appearance of Rebekah Rutkoff’s new book, Double Vision: The Cinema of Robert Beavers (2024), and in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art (which will host Beavers for a “Modern Mondays” presentation on September 9), Anthology Film Archives presents the first comprehensive U.S. retrospective of Beavers’s work from September 26 to 29.

“Perhaps the most distinctive quality of Beavers’s films is the degree to which they are at once both transcendent and materialist. Few filmmakers have demonstrated such a command of the medium, and Beavers has deployed his technical mastery to film landscapes, bodies, buildings, and spaces with a refined attention to the qualities of light and form that evokes the sublimity of classical painting, sculpture, or poetry. And yet Beavers insistently foregrounds the mechanism through which he produces his images, by employing a repertoire of formal strategies, including using lens shifts as an almost percussive punctuation, introducing filters and mattes to fragment, reframe, or otherwise transform the images, and sometimes even using mirrors to film himself filming.”

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