{"id":1040,"date":"2003-03-13T02:47:30","date_gmt":"2003-03-13T08:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:05:19","slug":"films-of-robert-beavers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/03\/13\/films-of-robert-beavers\/","title":{"rendered":"Films of Robert Beavers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Thursday, March 13, 2003, 8pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/still_from_the_35mm_film_from_the_notebook_of____robert_beavers_19711998_colour_sound_48_minutes__2007_robert_beavers-550x397.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2347 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/still_from_the_35mm_film_from_the_notebook_of____robert_beavers_19711998_colour_sound_48_minutes__2007_robert_beavers-550x397.jpg\" alt=\"still_from_the_35mm_film_from_the_notebook_of____robert_beavers_19711998_colour_sound_48_minutes__2007_robert_beavers-550x397\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Robert Beavers in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Imparting \u2018the serenity of a thought without words\u2019, Robert Beavers draws upon historical and architectural sources with an acute sensitivity to site.\u00a0 The filmmaker\u2019s presence, though not always visually evident, is perceived in every composition, gesture and edit.\u00a0 Beavers\u2019 films demand an openness and concentration, but despite their formal rigor they retain an inherent humanity.\u00a0<em> From the Notebook Of\u2026 <\/em>(1971\/1999), the longest film of Beavers\u2019 career, examines the filmmaker\u2019s cinematic ideas as opposed to his practice, through an 1895 Val\u00e9ry essay on Da Vinci. The historical imagination of the contemporary filmmaker is examined again in the lyrical portrait of Florence, <em>Work Done<\/em> (1972\/1999).\u00a0 <em>The Ground <\/em>(2001) asks \u201cwhat lives in the space between the stones, in the space cupped between my hand and my chest?\u201d (Description courtesy of Mark Webber, London Film Festival) 1971\u20142001, Robert Beavers, USA, ca. 95 min, 35mm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, March 13, 2003, 8pm Robert Beavers in person! Imparting \u2018the serenity of a thought without words\u2019, Robert Beavers draws upon historical and architectural sources with an acute sensitivity to site.\u00a0 The filmmaker\u2019s presence, though not always visually evident, is perceived in every composition, gesture and edit.\u00a0 Beavers\u2019 films demand an openness and concentration, but [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/03\/13\/films-of-robert-beavers\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Films of Robert Beavers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[423,450,481,615],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-8","tag-monographic-shows","tag-non-fiction","tag-portrait","tag-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10107,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/10107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}