Robert Beavers

Books

P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000, New York: Oxford University Press, 1979 [2nd edition], 2002 [3rd edition]

Dominique Nouguez, Une Renaissance du Cinéma. Le cinéma „underground“ américain. Histoire, économie, esthétique, Paris 1985

P. Adams Sitney, Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008

Adam Pugh (ed.), , Aurora 2008: The Infinite Measure (catalogue), “Robert Beavers,” by Mark Webber Aurora, Norwich 2008

Stefan Grissemann, Alexander Horwath, and Regina Schlagnitweit, (eds) Was ist Film. Peter Kubelkas Zyklisches Programm im Österreichischen Filmmuseum (Harry Tomicek, “Programm 46: Work Done, Ruskin, Amor,“) Filmmuseum Synema, Wien, 2010

Gregory J. Markopoulos, Film as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos [1950-1992], ed. Mark Webber, London: The Visible Press, 2014

Rebekah Rutkoff (ed.), Robert Beavers, Synema & Österreichisches Filmmuseum, 2017 (Texts by Gregory J. Markopoulos, Tom S. Chomont, Jonas Mekas, René Micha, Rebekah Rutkoff, Luke Fowler, Ricardo Matos Cabo, P. Adams Sitney, James Macguillivray, Kristin M. Jones, Erik Ulman, Don Daniels, Ute Aurand, Robert Beavers, Haden Guest)

Rebekah Rutkoff, “Film,” in: Liquid Antiquity, eds. Brooke Holmes and Karen Marta, Athens: DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2017

Harry Tomicek, Meine Reisen durch den Film 1895 – 2020, Klever, Wien, 2020

Tony Pipolo, The Melancholy Lens: Loss and Mourning in American Avant-garde Cinema, Oxford University Press, 2021

Booklets

Materialsammlung zur Filmwoche, Frankfurt, 14. 1 – 19. 1. 1997

My Hand Outstretched: Films by Robert Beavers, with an essay by Henriette Huldisch and notes by Robert Beavers, New York: Whitney Museum, 2005

To the Winged Distance: Films by Robert Beavers, with essays by Robert Beavers and Mark Webber and a conversation between Ute Aurand and Robert Beavers, London: Tate Modern, 2007

The Films of Robert Beavers, with essays by Tony Pipolo, Rebekah Rutkoff, P. Adams Sitney, Richard Suchenski, and Gregory J. Markopoulos, Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2009

Robert Beavers: Die ausgestreckte Hand, ed. Alexander Horwath, with essays by Robert Beavers, Rebekah Rutkoff (in English), Harry Tomicek, Georg Wasner, Mark Webber, and a conversation between Renate Sami and Robert Beavers (in German), Vienna: Österreichisches Filmmuseum, 2010

Periodicals

Tom Chomont, “A Note on The Count of Days,” Film Culture (New York), No. 48-49, Winter-Spring 1970

Jerven Ober, “Markopoulos introduceert Robert Beavers,” Skrien Filmschrift (Amsterdam), No. 28, January 1972

Ermanno Comuzio, “Robert Beavers, Cineasta Americano, e la funzione dell’Avanguardia, oggi,” Cineforum (Bergamo), No. 118, October-December 1972

René Micha, “Robert Beavers ou le cinéma absolu,” Art International (Paris), Vol. 17, No. 6, Summer 1973

Renzo Beltrame, “Due Film,” D’Ars, anno XIV (Milan), No. 66-67, 1973

Jonas Mekas, “Let the Work of Robert Beavers Speak,” Afterimage (Rochester, NY), Vol. 2, No. 3, June 1974

Scott Hammen, “Notes on Three Films by Robert Beavers,” Afterimage (Rochester NY) Vol. 2 No. 3, June 1974

André Gerely, “Filmemacher auf Durchreise. Sebastian Schadhausers ‘Arno Schmidt’ und Robert Beavers ‘Work done,’” Film & Ton-Magazin (Munich) Vol. 26, September 1, 1980

Tony Pipolo, “An Interview with Robert Beavers,” Millennium Film Journal (New York), No. 32-33, Fall 1998

P. Adams Sitney, “Robert Beavers: Observing and Directing Wingseed,” Millennium Film Journal (New York), No. 32-33, Fall 1998

Paul Arthur, “Between the Place and the Act: Efpsychi,” Millennium Film Journal (New York), No. 32-33, Fall 1998

Tony Pipolo, “Ruskin: A film by Robert Beavers,” Millennium Film Journal (New York), No. 32-33, Fall 1998

P. Adams Sitney, “Majestic Images,” Film Comment (New York), March-April 2001

George Baker, “Film Rebuff,” Artforum (New York), May 2002

Henriette Huldisch and Chrissie Iles, “Frames of Mind: The Films of Robert Beavers,” Artforum (New York), September 2005

Don Daniels, “Tour Guides: Naruse, Beavers, Quanz,” Ballet Review (New York), Vol. 34, No. 4, Winter 2006

Ian White, “Robert Beavers,” Art Review (London), February 2007

Andrew Bonacina, “Robert Beavers,” Frieze (London), June-August 2007

P. Adams Sitney, “Look Homeward,” Artforum (New York), September 2007

Volker Pantenburg, “Colored Light. Über die Retrospektive der Filme von Robert Beavers im Österreichischen Filmmuseum, Wien,” Texte zur Kunst (Berlin), No. 81, March 2011

James Macgillivray, “Film Grows Unseen: Gregory Markopoulos, Robert Beavers and the Tectonics of Film Editing,” The Journal of Modern Craft (London), Vol. 5, No. 2, July 2012

Rebekah Rutkoff, “Small Books about God: The American Artistry of Jonathan Edwards and Robert Beavers,” Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media (Detroit), Vol. 53, No. 2, Fall 2012

Rebekah Rutkoff, “Swiss Air,” Artforum (New York), January 2014

Aliza Ma, “A Hand in the Eye Reaching Out into Space: Robert Beavers on Listening to the Space in My Room,” Cinema Scope (Toronto), No. 57, Winter 2014

David Phelps, “Sound Images,” Lumière (September 2014)

Don Daniels, “Tour Guides: Naruse, Beavers, Quanz,” Ballet Review (New York), Vol. 34, No. 4, Winter 2006

 

Newspapers

Gregorio Napoli, Terza Giornata della Settimana Internazionale di Palermo – Il Destino dell’Uomo in Stile d’Avanguardia, Giornale di Sicilia (Palermo), December 30, 1968

Pierre Lachat, Pläne und Kalender. Filme von Robert Beavers, Tages-Anzeiger (Zurich), October 31, 1969

Jonas Mekas, Movie Journal The Village Voice (New York), September 10, 1970

Frank Zaagsma, Naar fim-kijken op een nieuwe manier de Volkskrant (Amsterdam), October 5, 1971

Pierre Lachat, “’Die Sprache der Diamanten’ – über die Filme von Robert Beavers,” Tages-Anzeiger Magazin (Zurich), No. 39, October 30, 1971

Alfred Fröhlich, “Meine Richtlinie ist meine Persönlichkeit: Ein Gespräch mit dem amerikanischen Filmmacher Robert Beavers,” Arbeiter-Zeitung (Zurich), October 20, 1971

Robert Setlik, “A Particular Type of Film, a Particular Film Maker,” The Patriot Ledger (Quincy, MA), December 2, 1971

Jonas Mekas, “Movie Journal,” The Village Voice (New York), December 16, 1971

Guglielmo Volonterio, “Quando inizio un film il messaggio è ancora incerto,” Corriere del Ticino (Lugano), February 27, 1973

Harry Tomicek, “Zu den Filmen von Gregory J. Markopoulos und Robert Beavers,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zurich), August 5, 1977

Harry Tomicek, “The Analysis of Beauty. Anmerkungen zu Filmen von Robert Beavers,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zurich), March 28, 1980

Harry Tomicek, “Filme von Robert Beavers” (program essay), Vienna: Österreichisches Filmmuseum, March 5-27, 1993

David Sterritt, “Recognizing the Poetic Value of Film,” The Christian Science Monitor (Boston), October 2, 1996

Stephen Holden, “Seeing the Beauty in Things Through Eyes of Wonder,” The New York Times, Friday, October 10, 1997

Liam Lacey, “A mysterious filmmaker dissects perception,” The Globe and Mail (Toronto), September 8, 2000

Paul Arthur, “The Last Detail – Intimate Strangers,” Village Voice (New York) May 8, 2001, p. 134

Stephen Holden, “Marching in the Vangard,” The New York Times, (NY),

Elvis Mitchell, “Nearly Silent Universes With No Need for Words,” The New York Times, (NY), Saturday, October 13, 2001, p. A17

Ed Halter, “Sacred Grove,” Village Voice (NY), February 12-18, 2003 Vol. XLVIII, No. 7, p. 138

Amy Taubin “Survival Tactics.” Village Voice, October 16, 2001, Vol. XLVI No. 41, p. 146

Dan Tranberg, “Cinematheque shows rare work of avant-garde filmmakers,” The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), May 4, 2001

Ed Halter, “ Film Robert Beavers” New York Press, May 2-8, 2001, Volume 14, No. 18, pp. 38, 40

J. Hoberman, “Renaissance Man,” The Village Voice (New York), March 12, 2002

Holland Cotter, “Depicting Spiritual America, From Ecstatic to Transcendent,” The New York Times, March 8, 2002

Andrea Köhler, “Das sich vollziehende Sehen,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, (Zürich), April 12, 2002

Fred Camper “Films by Robert Beavers,” The Readers Guide, March 7, 2003, p. 12

Nathan Lee, “A Supreme Cinematic Poet of Isolation,” The New York Sun, (NY), October 17, 2005

Roberta Smith, “Avant-Garde Films ‘Repatriated’ at Last,” The New York Times, October 21, 2005

Nathan Lee, “ NYFF45: It Is What It Is,” Village Voice, September 26 – October 2, 2007, pp. 71-72

Christoph Egger, “ Film als Kunst im Kunsthotel,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zürich), July 26, 2006

Stefan Grissemann, “Die ausgestreeckte Hand des einsamen Uhrmachers.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,

S. James Snyder “A ‘View’ to a Thrill,” The New York Sun, October 3, 2007, pp. 13 + 16

Manohla Dargis, “One of the New York Film Festival’s Best Movies Isn’t at the Main Event,” The New York Times, October 6, 2016