DVD : Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767066099
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 076706609X
Label: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Manufacturer: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 28, 2004
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 2780
Studio: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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Wildly praised by the nation's top critics, the smash theatrical hit RIVERS AND TIDES is a mesmerizing, poetic and curiously contemplative portrait of revered Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, whose long-winding rock walls, icicle assemblages and other intricate, druidic masterpieces are made entirely of materials found in the wild. Gorgeously shot and edited by director Thomas Riedelsheimer, RIVERS AND TIDES is an intoxicating study of the fragile relationship between man, art and nature.
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Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers and Tides is a truly beautiful, Scottish-German 2001 documentary about artist Goldsworthy, a Scotsman whose medium is nature itself and whose preferred studio is the outdoors, particularly where water forever flows, rises, and/or retreats. The soft-spoken, secluded Goldsworthy is seen hard at work making ephemeral sculptures out of bits of ice in the trees, or building tall, mysterious cones from loose rock, which stand like spiritual sentinels in forests and on shorelines, overgrown by plants or swallowed daily by high tides. Filmmaker-cinematographer Thomas Reidelsheimer goes to great and sometimes inexplicable lengths to make visual corollaries to Goldsworthy's ideas about underappreciated relationships between light, color, movement, balance, and fluidity of form in the real world, making Rivers and Tides a lively and always surprising cinematic gallery. Some of Goldsworthy's most miraculous natural installations--stone walls that snake through hundreds of feet of forest and stream, for instance--show up in the last half-hour. --Tom Keogh
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This DVD contains some of the most beautiful and fascinating nature art you will ever see. What makes Andy Goldsworthy special is his creative process. It's difficult to imagine how he conceives of his vast ideas, alone...but he also shows us the talent he has to see the concepts through, with great skill, labor and an eye for each and every detail. These intricate, fragile works often require a great deal of patience, time and effort, on his part. We are able to see the beauty in the sometimes temporal nature of the constructions, and it is conveyed that somehow being in the moment and being able to appreciate the process of how the art changes, over time, allows us to see that even when things destruct (or are made to eventually go back to their original form), that that, too, is "art". Andy Goldsworthy is a master, at this. There is an especially poignant moment in the film where a work Mr. Goldsworthy is trying to create keeps collapsing on him (three or four times, over the course of a few days). The work itself--requiring an understanding of balance, physics and weight--shows us through the artist that the process itself, is "art"....that even in the collapse, he "gets to know the stone a little better, each time". The art, in many ways, becomes a analogy for what happens to people, in life. It's just a really great film. I've watched it over ten times (at least) and have not tired of it, yet. Anyone with depth and an appreciation for beauty/nature should put ... Read More
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I don't know which way i'm going ... (Coldplay)
Goldsworthy captures the true not-knowing in which the process of creation is a true collaboration between the landscape, artist's senses, and his sensitivity (or, for the lack of a better word, his soul). The ecstasy of the sunrise lighting up stone icicles is matched by the bittersweet destruction of compositions by rivers, wind, gravity and time. rhythm permeates everything Andy does - the rhythm of change, the eternal clockwork of the tides, fire created by the root's contact with the earth... and its dancing partner, chaotic decomposition into primordial elements.
... in this era when the relationship between the teacher & student, master & disciple, celebrity & awestruck peons tends to be permeated by the deeply human notion of status and gain, Goldsworthy embodies its equally human antipode by living his life at the interface between solid & liquid, deeply profound & whimsical, village & countryside, life and death. The lack of pretentiousness in this film is, to a jaded cayote, breathtaking, humbling and ever so inspiring. i could watch and watch his band-aided fingers stick an icicle on another, a stone on a rock, a stick onto its counterpart.
just as Andy mediates his narrative by working with the elements, the filmmaker and composer contribute a sublime counterpoint with a sensitivity that is in every sense an equivalent to that of the primary creator. The ... Read More
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A magnificent collage of Goldworthy's works that present and frame natural objects in a new light. One of only two DVDs I own.
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Andy Goldsworthy articulates well the divided life of the artist - one foot in the world and one foot in his head.
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We saw this documentary at our local theater and bought the DVD to share with others. Our Christmas decoration this year was inspired by Goldworthy's work.
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