Robert Beavers: Oeuvre as Archive

In this lecture and conversation, the American filmmaker Robert Beavers will discuss The Temenos, the monographic archive he co-founded in Switzerland with his long-time partner, the Greek-American filmmaker, Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928-1992). Markopoulos and Beavers are both filmmakers dedicated to the physical medium of film (what Markopoulos called “film as film”), and the archive preserves their work, comprising camera originals, 16mmand 35mm projection prints, and other related documents (including writings). Beavers will discuss the archival project, the restoration work (mainly of Markopoulos’s magnum opus, Eniaios, printed but not completed upon the filmmaker’s death), and the Temenos screenings that he organises in the Peloponnese, Greece.

Robert Beavers is an American filmmaker who has been working between Europe and America since the 1960s. Growing up in Massachusetts, he made his first film at the age of 16 in New York, where he met the filmmaker Gregory J Markopoulos. Beavers and Markopoulos relocated to Europe together in 1967 and eventually founded the Temenos Archive, now based in Ulster, Switzerland. Beavers lives with the filmmaker Ute Aurand between Berlin and Massachusetts, USA.

Co-presented by the Power Institute and Film Studies at the University of Sydney. This event has been made possible by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, German Films and the Goethe-Institut Australia.