Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides
Starring:Andy Goldsworthy
Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Studio: New Video Group
Product Type: DVD
Editorial Review:
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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
Description
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.
Average customer rating:
- My only review ever....
- a wonderful documentary about an amazing man.....
- Inspirational for artists
- One of the best movies I've seen in a long time!!!
- Spectacularly serene!
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Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides
Starring: Andy Goldsworthy
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Similar Items:
- Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature
- Passage
- Winged Migration
- Time
- Touch the Sound - A Sound Journey With Evelyn Glennie
ASIN: B0002JL9N6
Release Date: 2004-09-28 |
Amazon.com
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
Description
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.
Customer Reviews:
My only review ever...........2007-06-11
This movie brings peace. The music so beautifully matches the art that it left me breathless.
a wonderful documentary about an amazing man............2007-06-06
I was really blown away by ANDY GOLDSWORTHY'S RIVER & TIDES, the first time I saw it on the big screen in the movie theater in 2003. In all honesty, the big screen is the best way to fully experience the magic of Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy's remarkable natural works of living and moving art. Since Goldsworthy's sculptures are made from transitory material he finds in nature (discs of melting ice that he so elegantly places near and around rootbound trees, cones made out of bits of pebble, just to name a few examples), none of his pieces last forever. But, really, what does in this world? Human beings spend so much time feeling to be master in command over nature, one another, material and living objects, and RIVERS & TIDES truly brings the message of the temporary state of nature and humankind in the world. It ebbs and flows, and Goldsworthy's unassuming but dutiful continuity as a true natural artist, working with the medium of mother nature, to design intricate visual sculpture and installations out of the elements we take for granted all too often. This is an especially timely film in this day and age, where we are questioning what is to be done to work toward sustainability and conservation in the world. Highly reccomended!
Inspirational for artists.......2007-05-28
I am an artist who sometimes gets too bound up with striving toward perfect realism and detail. When I first came across books of Goldsworthy's work, I was intrigued and liked the work. But, it wasn't particularly inspiring to me for my own work. Then, I saw this DVD and something happened in my head. It reminded me of how my art started when I was a kid...playing with the materials that were available in nature and just goofing around. The sheer joy of that was recaptured in my artist's heart by watching this film. For this touch to the past, I'm grateful to Mr. Goldsworthy and give him my public thank you here.
One of the best movies I've seen in a long time!!!.......2007-05-17
Rivers and Tides fascinated me. I am an artist myself and the fact that he creates art and installments that will eventually be taken by the river, tide or by the ever-changing aspects of nature is something that intrigues the Buddhist philosopher in me. It gives a concrete experience of "impermanence" that anyone can contemplate because it is portrayed within the framework of this artistic film. Upon watching it a second and third time I was a little disquieted by the interaction he had with his wife near the middle of the film, but I figured that it was his artistic temperament coming out. I enjoyed sharing this film with friends who are also artists.
Spectacularly serene!.......2007-05-17
The brilliant conceptions and thoughtful, meticulous excecutions of the stunning, evocative, nature-inspired sculptures by this sensitive, intelligent artist have been beautifully documented. Goldsworthy's articulate explanation of each installation adds to the viewer's potentially transcendental viewling experience, but they can be turned off without hindering the pure enjoyment of the awe-filled visual experience. I whole-heartedly recommend this 2 DVD set to people of all age who wish to have yet another justification to celebrate the beauty of this planet and the poetry of artistic vision and expression.
Average customer rating:
- My only review ever....
- a wonderful documentary about an amazing man.....
- Inspirational for artists
- One of the best movies I've seen in a long time!!!
- Spectacularly serene!
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Andy Goldsworthy - Rivers and Tides (Special Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Starring: Andy Goldsworthy
Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Manufacturer: New Video Group
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| Educational
| Fitness & Yoga
| Gay & Lesbian
| Horror
| Kids & Family
| Military & War
| Music Video & Concerts
| Musicals & Performing Arts
| Mystery & Suspense
| Science Fiction & Fantasy
| Special Interests
| Sports
| Television
| Westerns
Similar Items:
- Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature
- Passage
- Winged Migration
- Time
- Touch the Sound - A Sound Journey With Evelyn Glennie
ASIN: B000HDR8C8
Release Date: 2006-10-31 |
Amazon.com
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
Customer Reviews:
My only review ever...........2007-06-11
This movie brings peace. The music so beautifully matches the art that it left me breathless.
a wonderful documentary about an amazing man............2007-06-06
I was really blown away by ANDY GOLDSWORTHY'S RIVER & TIDES, the first time I saw it on the big screen in the movie theater in 2003. In all honesty, the big screen is the best way to fully experience the magic of Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy's remarkable natural works of living and moving art. Since Goldsworthy's sculptures are made from transitory material he finds in nature (discs of melting ice that he so elegantly places near and around rootbound trees, cones made out of bits of pebble, just to name a few examples), none of his pieces last forever. But, really, what does in this world? Human beings spend so much time feeling to be master in command over nature, one another, material and living objects, and RIVERS & TIDES truly brings the message of the temporary state of nature and humankind in the world. It ebbs and flows, and Goldsworthy's unassuming but dutiful continuity as a true natural artist, working with the medium of mother nature, to design intricate visual sculpture and installations out of the elements we take for granted all too often. This is an especially timely film in this day and age, where we are questioning what is to be done to work toward sustainability and conservation in the world. Highly reccomended!
Inspirational for artists.......2007-05-28
I am an artist who sometimes gets too bound up with striving toward perfect realism and detail. When I first came across books of Goldsworthy's work, I was intrigued and liked the work. But, it wasn't particularly inspiring to me for my own work. Then, I saw this DVD and something happened in my head. It reminded me of how my art started when I was a kid...playing with the materials that were available in nature and just goofing around. The sheer joy of that was recaptured in my artist's heart by watching this film. For this touch to the past, I'm grateful to Mr. Goldsworthy and give him my public thank you here.
One of the best movies I've seen in a long time!!!.......2007-05-17
Rivers and Tides fascinated me. I am an artist myself and the fact that he creates art and installments that will eventually be taken by the river, tide or by the ever-changing aspects of nature is something that intrigues the Buddhist philosopher in me. It gives a concrete experience of "impermanence" that anyone can contemplate because it is portrayed within the framework of this artistic film. Upon watching it a second and third time I was a little disquieted by the interaction he had with his wife near the middle of the film, but I figured that it was his artistic temperament coming out. I enjoyed sharing this film with friends who are also artists.
Spectacularly serene!.......2007-05-17
The brilliant conceptions and thoughtful, meticulous excecutions of the stunning, evocative, nature-inspired sculptures by this sensitive, intelligent artist have been beautifully documented. Goldsworthy's articulate explanation of each installation adds to the viewer's potentially transcendental viewling experience, but they can be turned off without hindering the pure enjoyment of the awe-filled visual experience. I whole-heartedly recommend this 2 DVD set to people of all age who wish to have yet another justification to celebrate the beauty of this planet and the poetry of artistic vision and expression.
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