Double Vision: The Cinema of Robert Beavers

First Edition, 2024. 302 pages.

Double Vision is a beautifully written work of biography and criticism that tells the inside story of Robert Beavers (b. 1949), a major American avant garde filmmaker. Until now, Beavers’s dramatic life of itinerancy and resistance to commercial circulation has obscured his recognition as one of today’s most significant living filmmakers. In Double Vision, Rebekah Rutkoff, the first scholar to have full access to Beavers’s writing archive, sheds light on this deeply original underground figure and reveals the way Beavers’ films explore non-optical seeing—awareness itself—as an outcome of cinematic sight. Illustrated throughout with stills of Beavers’ films and other archival material. Condition: New