Beavers shot The Hedge Theatre in Rome in the 1980s. It is an intimate film inspired by the Baroque architecture and stone carvings of Francesco Borromini and St. Martin and the Beggar, a painting by the Sienese painter Il Sassetta. Beavers’ montage contrasts the sensuous softness of winter light with the lush green growth brought by spring rains. Each shot and each source of sound is steeped in meaning and placed within the film’s structure with exacting skill to build a poetic relationship between image and sound.
November 17, 2002
Released
The Hedge Theater
19min
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No Language
Part of
Includes: Winged Dialogue, Early Monthly Segments, Plan of Brussels, The Count of Days, Palinode, Diminished Frame, Still Light, From the Notebook of..., The Painting, Work Done, Ruskin, Sotiros, Amor, Efpsychi, Wingseed, The Hedge Theater, The Stoas, The Ground