rivers and tides review

If you want to relax to the sounds and images of art... A beautiful look into Goldsworthy's art and mind. We see a long rope of linked leaves, bright green, uncoil as it floats downstream.

© 2020 METACRITIC, A RED VENTURES COMPANY. I was amazed how patiently he created his pieces and how patiently he accepted their end. But with Andy Goldsworthy, not one word of explanation is necessary, because every single one of us has made something like his art. Goldsworthy’s obsession with the pattern of a flowing river is as much about the flow of blood through the veins, the twists and turns of a river reflecting the chaos theory patterns of life itself. I hadn't even heard of it. His method upon receiving a commission is to investigate the area, get a feel for the environment, its conditions, the balance of light and shade, and find materials to work with in the place that reflects, enhances and brings out its natural beauty.

Be amazed by the ease with which he operates and then realize the futility when a slight breeze knocks down the entire web. By there very nature these works of art he so painstakingly creates are temporary, lasting, in some cases, just a matter of hours. Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time, Check box if your review contains spoilers, Rivers And Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time, Now Playing: Rivers And Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time.

Coming Soon. I thought I would die of boredom during the first minute, but then I calmed down, and was soon mesmerized by Andy's work. the film is shoot elegantly and contains the same flow that Goldsworthy's art has. Before, we saw only the surface of the water, but now the movement of the leaves reveals its current and structure.

| Rating: A- Doesn't add up to much more than a series of pretty pictures, and Goldsworthy's gnomic statements about the "energy" he perceives in "the plants and the land" are never fully explored.

Goldsworthy understands and works with, and in, nature. The impermanence of life, the beauty of nature, the interconnectedness of all things, etc. Coming Soon, Regal You may never look at nature indifferently again. The timelessness that we perceive in stoic rock and in the unceasing ebb and flow of water frames the ephemeral works from Goldsworthy's hands so that in their very ephemeralness they point to eternity. This is not easy, and he gives us pointers: "Top control can be the death of a work." More From Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time. The documentary captures his working at home in rural Scotland and abroad in Nova Scotia, New York and France. It's nice that a film about an artist, one that gets close to him and his work, is reaching people so successfully. I beg to differ.

He knows that you can warm the end of an icicle just enough to make it start to melt, and then hold it against another icicle, and it will stick. There’s little here that would give your speakers a work-out and nothing in the film that would benefit from a wider or more dynamic dispersal of sound.

Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Rivers and Tides at Amazon.com. Some of them are designed to be carried away by the rivers and tides. For the most part, his creations are temporary, as nature takes them back to their sources and breathes new life into them. it combines nature and art in a minimal way as it is in itself. His work reminds us of an artist's true focus: a meditative commitment to discovery, creativity, and the enhancement of God's own invention. Thomas Riedelsheimer's documentary about Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy and his work. Or only seeing his hands, covered in dirt and with broken fingernails, it just touches you.

| Rating: 3/5

If the film lets Goldsworthy overexplain what's happening, it also affords ample to time to languidly take in the imagery and let its beauty and simplicity speak for itself.

I admit that for the first 20 minutes or so of this film I wasn't entirely sure I was going to sit through the whole thing. Yes, why, because his art takes him into that Zone where time drops away and we forget our left-brain concerns and are utterly absorbed by whether this ... could go like this ... without the whole thing falling apart. While I find the film extremely beautiful and well made, its wandering nature dulls my senses to the point of sleep and I find that just about the time we go home with him I turn off the DVD and swear I'll pick it up again later, though I never do. It had an overall meditative quality from the music, to the beautiful photography, and listening to the often cliché things about life that Andy Goldsworthy would say as he worked or in between shots. Rivers and Tides › Customer reviews; Customer reviews. | | Metacritic Reviews, On one level, this film can bring out the child in us that just wants to build sandcastles and throw stuff in the air just for the sake of seeing it fall down again. We go into modern art galleries and find work we cannot comprehend as art. and A Most Beautiful Thing Among Nominees at Critics' Choice Documentary Awards. Andy pours his soul into his work and often takes it to the very edge of its collapse. The film would be more informative if it put Goldsworthy into the broader context of modernist art movements. Director Thomas Riedelsheimer follows Goldsworthy as he constructs his art everywhere from upstate New York to his home village in Scotland, and questions the solitary artist about his inspirations, frustrations and artistic goals. 80 customer ratings. And at a time when the stereotype about artists is that they are mostly bitter, pretentious, often mentally unstable people who live in decrepit urban settings, Goldsworthy seems to be the opposite: a stable, unpretentious, family oriented person who loves nature and lives in a small village in Scotland (of course, I'm sure those are the same reasons why he's shunned by some people on the art world who found his works fluffy or superficial). this is overall a great piece of work in every aspect. The artistry of Thomas Riedelsheimer's film perfectly compliments Goldsworthy's art. Watching this movie is like daydreaming. Rivers And Tides is a documentary feature by Thomas Reidelsheimer on the work of Andy Goldsworthy, a UK sculptor of worldwide fame and renown.

We see Damien Hurst's sheep, cut down the middle and embedded in plastic, and we cannot understand how it won the Turner Prize (forgetting that no one thought Turner was making art, either). Powered by Content Blender The score by Frith is a subtle accompaniment that works well with the subject and towards the end links. We appreciate your support. This film is stunningly beautiful. this has by far been one of the most beautiful portraits of a person that I've ever seen on screen. Goldsworthy describes how the flow of life, the rivers, and the tides inspires and affects his work. This is essentially the philosophy of his work, trying to understand the nature of the place and the materials he is working with, working hand in hand with natural objects, bringing out of them something that the ordinary eye normally would not observe or take in.

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by Andy Goldsworthy. Appropriately, Riedelsheimer shoots Goldsworthy's mini-megaliths with a landscape painter's eye; set to Fred Firth's modernist score, some images verge on Kubrick territory.

I for one am glad to know that Andy is somewhere out there.

Being a fan of Andy Goldsworthy's art for a while now, and owning some of his books, I had some expectations of what I would see. What I got was something completely satisfying, and quite a bit more than I expected. This is all well and good, but it doesn't explain why anyone would commission this guy to go onto the shores of Nova Scotia and build things no one will ever see since time and tide will destroy them. Thomas Riedelsheimer's documentary about Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy and his work. 4.5 out of 5. FAQ In its own quiet, voluptuous way, Rivers and Tides, an unpretentiously brilliant documentary, uses the work of Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy to open up the hidden drama of the natural universe. Goldsworthy captures these temporary sculptures by photographing them. But the beauty of the film and Goldsworthy’s work is that it works beyond words and descriptions, having all the beauty, innocence, simplicity and meaning of a child making a daisychain. I know of no documentary on a contemporary artist that conveys so much about the artist's work so lyrically and directly. Cinemark

Price: $5.99. I walked out of class that day just completely blown away. That, Fantastic representation of an artist whos work is not that easy to understand on a deeper level, and even Goldsworthy seems to understand his work on no more than an instinctual level.

|, July 1, 2003 One of the best films I've seen in a long time! The Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy fashions natural materials into ephemeral artworks, assembling rocks into egg-shaped cairns, filling riverside rock-pools with fiery flowers and stitching thorns and twigs into intricate web patterns. Like many other people, I found it pretty boring, and I wasn't entirely looking forward to an hour and a half of watching this guy bite icicles and stick them together.

He discusses flow and time in the minimal dialog and there appears to be little doubt that the artist and the earth are one in the same. He sometimes seems to be a child playing in the vacant lot, the beach or on the rocky edge of a stream. Please click the link below to receive your verification email. | Rating: 4/5, August 7, 2003 As the film's images accumulate, the movie becomes a sustained and ultimately refreshing meditation on surrender to the idea of temporality.

It's that kind of intense focus where you totally forget where you are and who is around you. I started getting e-mails about it months ago. Also included are Biographies for Andy Goldsworthy and Thomas Reidelsheimer.

|, December 30, 2006 | Most of Goldsworthy's work is impermanent, but Rivers and Tides captures, permanently, both the art and the artist, showing us a creative, productive life in the process of being well-lived. Andy Goldsworthy is a taoist master of the first order, expressing the Way through his sublime ephemeral art. It is a film filled with moments of small treasures. And it offers extraordinary beauty. Rivers And Tides is a documentary feature by Thomas Reidelsheimer on the work of Andy Goldsworthy, a UK sculptor of worldwide fame and renown. Credit also goes of course to the filmmaker, Thomas Riedelsheimer, who directed, photographed and edited the movie with incredible sensibility and perfect timing. Watch this! For example, early in the film we see him taking sections of icicles and "gluing" them together with a little moisture into a serpentine shape that seems to repeatedly go through a vertical rock. When you see his failures, energy seems to expel from his body like a burst hot air balloon. These are the films from 2020 (and early 2021) that have the best chance... Get a list of the best movie and TV titles recently added (and coming... We rank the 25 best-reviewed horror films of the 2010s. Rivers and Tides is a spellbinding portrait of a unique and dedicated artist and absolutely should be seen by anyone with even a passing interest in the possibilities of an alternative approach to art.