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
Work Done
1973
Ruskin
1974
AMOR
1980
Efpsychi
1983
Wingseed
1985
The Stoas
1997
Sotiros
2000
Watching
The Ground
2001
The Hedge Theater
2002
Early Monthly Segments
2003
What lives in the space between the stones, in the space cupped between my hand and my chest? Filmmaker/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 the image – a space permitting vision in addition to sight.
