My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
2005 · 6h 58m · N/A
Documentary
Directed by
Robert Beavers
Overview
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. The films were made from the late 1960s through the early 2000s in different European countries, particularly Greece, Switzerland, and Italy. Most of the works in the cycle are radically re-edited, condensed versions of the original films. The completed cycle premiered in its entirety in from October 7 to October 30, 2005, at a retrospective of Beavers' work at the Whitney Museum of American Art. This was followed by screenings at Tate Modern, the Austrian Film Museum, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
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