My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure is a film cycle by American avant-garde filmmaker Robert Beavers. It consists of eighteen films in three parts.
18 films
Winged Dialogue
1967
Plan of Brussels
1968
The Count of Days
1969
Palinode
1970
Diminished Frame
1971
Watching
Still Light
1971
The Painting
1972
From the Notebook of...
1972
Work Done
1973
Ruskin
1974
AMOR
1980
Efpsychi
1983
Wingseed
1985
The Stoas
1997
Sotiros
2000
The Ground
2001
The Hedge Theater
2002
Early Monthly Segments
2003
The first half of the film explores delicate nuances of lighting, colour and depth as Beavers shoots the face of a young man in various locales on the Greek island of Hydra, using a variety of customized masks and filters. The man’s face remains constant throughout, surrounded by iconic elements in the landscape, like a pulsating Renaissance portrait. Still Light brings to mind any number of structuralist binarisms: youth and age, creation and criticism, action and reflection, living landscape and mummified text.
