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
Still Light
1971
The Painting
1972
From the Notebook of...
1972
Watching
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
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Bracing in its simplicity, Work done was shot in Florence and the Alps, and celebrates an archaic Europe. Contemplating a stone vault cooled by blocks of ice or handstiching of a massive tome or the frying of a local delicacy, Beavers considers human activities without dwelling on human protagonists. Like many of Beavers’ films, Work done is based on a series of textural transformative equivalences: the workshop and the field, the book and the forest, the mound of cobblestones and a distant mountain.
