Bracing in its simplicity, Work done was shot in Florence and the Alps, and celebrates an archaic Europe. Contemplating a stone vault cooled by blocks of ice or handstiching of a massive tome or the frying of a local delicacy, Beavers considers human activities without dwelling on human protagonists. Like many of Beavers’ films, Work done is based on a series of textural transformative equivalences: the workshop and the field, the book and the forest, the mound of cobblestones and a distant mountain.
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Cast
1 person
Robert Beavers Director
United States release February 12, 1974 · Produced in Italy
Production
Italy
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United Kingdom · September 14, 1973
Premiere · Festival of Independent Avant-Garde Film
United States · February 12, 1974
Premiere · Museum of Modern Art
Canada
September 9, 2000 · Premiere · Toronto Film Festival
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