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
Watching
From the Notebook of...
1972
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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Shot in Florence, the film draws on Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks and Paul Valéry’s essay on da Vinci’s creative process to explore parallels between Renaissance space and the moving image. Beavers employs rapid pans and tilts along the city’s facades, interspersed with glimpses of his own face, linking camera movement to the filmmaker’s investigative gaze. The work marks a turning point in his practice, foregrounding presence and perception as central to his method. (Note: The film was re-edited and re-released in 1999.)
