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Andy Goldsworthy - Rivers and Tides: Working With Time (2003)

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Reviews Counted: 70

Fresh: 69

Rotten:1

Average Rating: 8.1/10

Consensus: Andy Goldsworthy and his art are beautifully captured in this engaging documentary.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 2 hrs 35 mins

Genre: Musical & Performing Arts

Theatrical Release:Jun 26, 2002 Limited

Synopsis: RIVERS AND TIDES, Thomas Riedelsheimer's mind-blowing new film which won the Golden Gate Award Grand Prize for Best Documentary at this year's San Francisco Int Film Fest follows renowned sculptor... RIVERS AND TIDES, Thomas Riedelsheimer's mind-blowing new film which won the Golden Gate Award Grand Prize for Best Documentary at this year's San Francisco Int Film Fest follows renowned sculptor Andy Goldsworthy as he creates with ice, driftwood, bracken, leaves, stone, dirt, and snow in open fields, beaches, rivers, creeks and forests.

Andy Goldsworthy knows that most of his pieces will not last long because of where he makes them. Some of his works stand and remain in the landscape; others decay, melt or are blown away. His work's transitory nature, in fact, is a central part of the sculptor's creative efforts to understand the energy that flows through him and through the natural landscape that nourishes his vision. In this contemplative and beautifully insightful film, we see Goldsworthy as he works to understand that energetic flow, represented often by water, by wind or simply the passage of seasons. Both carefully composed and fluid, RIVERS AND TIDES keeps its focus on the artist's vision and work, giving us room to ponder our own relationship to the energy coursing through the natural world.

The director worked with Andy Goldsworthy for over a year to shoot this remarkable film. What he found was a profound sense of breathless discovery and uncertainty in Goldsworthy's work, in contrast to the stability of conventional sculpture. There is risk in everything Goldsworthy does. He takes his fragile work right to the edge of its collapse, a very beautiful balance and a very dramatic edge within the film. RIVERS AND TIDES captures the essential unpredictability of working with nature and, like Goldsworthy's suclpture, grows into something beyond the simple making of an object. It touches the heart of what Goldsworthy does and who he is. It is a film that allows "you to see something you never saw before, that was always there but you were blind to." -- © Roxie Releasing [More]

Starring: Andy Goldsworthy

Starring: Andy Goldsworthy

Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer

Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Composer: Fred Frith
Studio: Roxie Releasing

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08/06/08
Dennis Harvey
Variety
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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.

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04/02/08
Ken Hanke
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Nell Minow
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An absorbing portrait of a unique artist’s professional and personal communion with nature.

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08/26/05
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness

His work reminds us of an artist's true focus: a meditative commitment to discovery, creativity, and the enhancement of God's own invention.

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01/15/05
Jeffrey Overstreet
Looking Closer

Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time is an extraordinarily spiritually literate documentary about one of the world's greatest nature artists.

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10/05/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

A wondrous look at an artist and his work with lots of joyous surprises.

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09/30/04
Mark Robison
Reno Gazette-Journal

Hypnotic.

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04/16/04
Bruce Kirkland
Jam! Movies

A beautiful, probing art documentary.

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04/16/04
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
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When it's at its most self-aware, Rivers and Tides precociously tweaks the pessimist's view of art as an exercise in futility.

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12/19/03
Steve Schneider
Orlando Weekly

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.

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12/19/03
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

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10/01/03
Kimberly Jones
Austin Chronicle

The film doesn’t just explain Goldsworthy’s vision -- it brings us closer to seeing the world through his eyes.

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09/11/03
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

Rivers and Tides is subtle and meditative almost to a fault ... So it's fortunate that the film is relatively short and that its subject -- Andy Goldsworthy, a Scottish sculptor known for working with nature -- is so fascinating.

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08/17/03
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

A documentary that introduces us to an artist whose work is full of contradictions -- contradictions that spill over into the act of watching the movie.

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08/15/03
Sean Means
Salt Lake Tribune

You will want someone to talk to about the film and acknowledge the marvels you saw.

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08/08/03
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

The artistry of Thomas Riedelsheimer's film perfectly compliments Goldsworthy's art.

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08/07/03
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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