Robert Beavers: ‘What lives in the space between the stones, in the space cupped between my hand and my chest? Film-maker/stonemason. A tower or ruin of remembrance. With each swing of the hammer I cut into the image, and the sound rises from the chisel. A rhythm, marked by repetition and animated by variation; strokes, of hammer and fist, resounding in dialogue. In this space, which the film creates, emptiness gains a contour strong enough for the spectator to see more than image – a space permitting vision in addition to sight.’
Also in this combined programme
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From the Notebook of…
Perhaps Beaver’s most masterful work of structural harmony, binary contradictions and self-reflexive form. -
Amor
Focussing on the complex emotions that surround love, separation and the metonymic twinning of objects, including that of the edited image and saturat
Film details
- Countries of production
- Switzerland, USA
- Year
- 2001
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2001
- Length
- 20'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm