Work Done
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Overview
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 hand stitching 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. (J. Hoberman, The Village Voice)
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Review
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 hand stitching 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. (J. Hoberman, The Village Voice)
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Credit
- DirectorRobert BEAVERS
- CinematographyRobert BEAVERS
- EditorRobert BEAVERS
- SoundRobert BEAVERS
Film Source
Harvard Film Archive⎜mhjohns@fas.harvard.edu
Director
Robert BEAVERS
Robert Beavers is an American experimental filmmaker. He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1949 and attended public schools in Weymouth, Boston Latin School and Deerfield Academy before meeting the filmmaker Gregory J. Markopoulos and making his first 16mm film in New York City in 1966. He moved to Europe in 1967, and continues to make films in 16mm. His recent filming has been done in Massachusetts, Zumikon (Switzerland) and Berlin.
