"Approaching a snow-leopard-sighting level of rarity is BAMPFA's "Robert Beavers: Filmmaker in Residence" (Fri/30-Sat/7) a career retrospective for an expat American who moved to Europe with domestic and creative partner Gregory Markopoulos in 1976. Both during their life together and after Markopoulos' 1992 death, the two experimentalists' works were notable for extremely limited accessibility: Screenings were infrequent (particularly outside Europe), requested interviews declined, digitalization for home-format viewing nixed."
"Now based in Berlin, the septuagenarian will appear to lecture (on Fri/6) and present seven programs of his shorts, dating from the mid-late 1960s to titles as recent as 2024. They are said to strike a balance between the personal, poetical and avant-garde, frequently drawing on the deep well of European landscapes, cultures, architecture and art. He will be in conversation with various scholars and experts at each event taking place at BAMPFA in Berkeley this Fri/30 through Sat/7."
"Rob Nilsson has lived nearly his entire filmmaking life here, starting with involvement in the activist 1970s collective Cine Manifest, on through independent features ( Northern Lights, Signal 7, Heat & Sunlight, Chalk) that got limited commercial release. Then he accelerated: While continuing to generate a variety of other screen works until quite recently, over a fourteen-year course in collaboration with the Tenderloin yGroup he developed, shot and completed the series of primarily B&W, digitally-shot features."
Two Bay Area series revive rarely screened films by experimental and independent filmmakers. BAMPFA presents a Robert Beavers career retrospective (Fri/30–Sat/7) showcasing shorts from the mid-late 1960s through 2024; Beavers moved to Europe with Gregory Markopoulos in 1976 and has kept work largely inaccessible through infrequent screenings, refused interviews, and no home-format digitization. The Berlin-based septuagenarian will lecture (Fri/6), present seven programs, and converse with scholars. Rob Nilsson, a near-lifelong Bay Area resident, moved from 1970s Cine Manifest to limited-release features, then collaborated fourteen years with the Tenderloin yGroup on primarily B&W, digitally-shot, improv-based features involving homeless workshop participants and professional actors.
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