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Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides
List price: $26.95
Sale price: $15.99
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Actor(s): Andy Goldsworthy
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Director(s):
EAN: 9780767066099
Format(s): ColorDVD-VideoNTSC
ISBN: 076706609X
Label: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Language(s): English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Original Language
List Price: $26.95
Manufacturer: NEW VIDEO GROUP
MPN: NVGD9643D
Number Of Items: 1
Package Dimensions:
Height: 0.58"
Width: 5.42"
Length: 0.58"
Weight: 0.18 lbs.
Product Group: DVD
Publisher: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2004-09-28
Running Time: 90minutes
Studio: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
UPC: 767685964330
Editorial Reviews
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.
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 Average rating - 4.5
Rating - 5 Date: 2009-01-06
Content: 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 filming has its own cadence and the music follows it, sometimes engulfing it, other times retreating. Just like a river. Or perhaps a tide. What we get, then, is an amplified artwork where everybody involved has practiced a letting go, a respect for the flow of color, of energy, of time and space.
I've seen this film several times over the years. I love it.
Summary: spectacular
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-12-27
Content: A magnificent collage of Goldworthy's works that present and frame natural objects in a new light. One of only two DVDs I own.
Summary: Review of Rivers & Tides
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-12-15
Content: Andy Goldsworthy articulates well the divided life of the artist - one foot in the world and one foot in his head.
Summary: An Artist Speaks
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-12-14
Content: 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.
Summary: Water and rock art
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-11-16
Content: Great movie - I used it in my fifth grade classroom and they loved it!
Summary: Rivers and Tides review
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