Backstage: Robert Beavers
Meet Robert Beavers,
Experimental filmmaker
Pioneer
Awakener
QWhy did you choose to come to speak here at Yale and what’s the purpose of this event?
AI am interested in finding a particular space for the reception of my films, of course — not only my films, but the poetic and sensuous filmmaking that stands outside of either commercial filmmaking or the art world. One of the few and best audiences we have, probably, is in the universities.
QBut generally, you’ve tended to avoid universities — you left America to make films at 18 …
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