Pitcher of Colored Light

Ι have filmed my mother’s house and her garden. The shadows play an essential part in the mixture of loneliness and peace that exists here. The seasons move from the garden into the house, projecting rich diagonals in the early morning or late afternoon. Each shadow is a subtle balance of stillness and movement and shows the vital instability of space. Its special quality opens a passage to the subjective. A voice within the film speaks to memory. The walls are screens through which I pass to the inhabited privacy. We experience a place through the perspective of where we come from and hear another’s voice through our own acoustic. The sense of place is never separate from the moment. (Robert Beavers)

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Robert Beavers

Actors: Dorothy Mahoney, Robert Beavers

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Production Country: USA

Production Year: 2007

Duration: 23΄

Robert Beavers

Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, Beavers attended Deerfield Academy before meeting the independent filmmaker Gregory J. Markopoulos in 1966. They moved to Europe in 1967 and removed their films from distribution; Beavers did not show his films in the United States again until 1996. Beavers made films in Greece, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and Italy. Βeavers currently lives with the German filmmaker Ute Aurand and shares his time between Berlin and Massachusetts.