AMOR

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AMOR
NR 15 minMy Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure PosterPart of My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
Cutting and sewing as metaphors Central to this work is the complex emotions surrounding love separation and the metonymic twinning of objects including that of edited images and saturated sound AMOR is an exquisite lyric shot in Rome and at the natural theatre of Salzburg The recurring sounds of cutting cloth hands clapping hammering and tapping underline the associations of the montage of short camera movements which bring together the making of a suit the restoration of a building and details of a figure presumably Beavers himself standing in the natural theatre in a new suit making a series of hand movements and gestures A handsomely designed Italian banknote suggests the aesthetic economy of the film the tailoring trimming and chiselling point to the editing of the film itself P Adams Sitney Film Comment
DirectorRobert Beavers

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Original Language:English

My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure

Avant-garde film by Robert Beavers. At first glance, this expression appears like a poetic riddle, but its practical relevance becomes quite obvious for those who see and hear the films. Beavers has worked extensively on re-editing his films to create the larger film cycle "My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure," a project started in 1968 and finished in 2002.