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
Watching
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
The Ground
2001
The Hedge Theater
2002
Early Monthly Segments
2003
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In Palinode a disk-shaped matte continually shifting in and out of focus alternately blocks part of the image or contains it. Its respiratory rhythm matches operatic fragments of Wladimir Vogel’s Wagadu, as the camera studies a middle-aged male singer in Zurich, singing, eating, window shopping, and meeting a young girl. The filmmaker told himself, ‘Don’t let yourself know what that film is about while you are making it.’ (P. Adams Sitney, Film Comment).
