My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure is a film cycle by American avant-garde filmmaker Robert Beavers. It consists of eighteen films in three parts.
18 films
Winged Dialogue
1967
Plan of Brussels
1968
The Count of Days
1969
Palinode
1970
Diminished Frame
1971
Still Light
1971
The Painting
1972
From the Notebook of...
1972
Work Done
1973
Watching
Ruskin
1974
AMOR
1980
Efpsychi
1983
Wingseed
1985
The Stoas
1997
Sotiros
2000
The Ground
2001
The Hedge Theater
2002
Early Monthly Segments
2003
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Ruskin visits the sites of John Ruskin’s work: London, the Alps and, above all, Venice, where the camera’s attention to masonry and the interaction of architecture and water mimics the author’s descriptive analysis of the “stones” of the city. The sound of pages turning and the image of a book, Ruskin’s ‘Unto This Last’, forcibly reminds us that a poet’s perceptions and in this case his political economy, are preserved and reawakened through acts of reading and writing.
