Movie · My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure

The Ground (2001)

• January 30, 2001
• 22m

• Documentary

Overview

What lives in the space between the stones, in the space cupped between my hand and my chest? Filmmaker/stonemason. A tower or ruin of remembrance. With each swing of the hammer I cut into the image and the sound rises from the chisel. A rhythm, marked by repetition and animated by variation; strokes of hammer and fist, resounding in dialogue. In this space which the film creates, emptiness gains a contour strong enough for the spectator to see more than the image – a space permitting vision in addition to sight.

Director

Robert Beavers

Starring

Robert Beavers