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

Still Light (1971)

• December 13, 1971
• 1h 0m

• Documentary

Overview

The first half of the film explores delicate nuances of lighting, colour and depth as Beavers shoots the face of a young man in various locales on the Greek island of Hydra, using a variety of customized masks and filters. The man’s face remains constant throughout, surrounded by iconic elements in the landscape, like a pulsating Renaissance portrait. Still Light brings to mind any number of structuralist binarisms: youth and age, creation and criticism, action and reflection, living landscape and mummified text.

Director

Robert Beavers

Starring

Robert Beavers, Ron Krueck