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Gag Gifts, Occasion Gifts - Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides
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List Price: $26.95
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Manufacturer: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Starring: Andy Goldsworthy
Directed By: Thomas Riedelsheimer
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767066099
Format: Color
ISBN: 076706609X
Label: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Manufacturer: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2004-09-28
Running Time: 90
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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Summary: Absolutely magical!
Comment: This DVD gives a good look into the genius of Andy Goldsworthy. It's great to hear him think aloud about his works, which we see here as they're created and as they fade away with time.
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Summary: Nature artist extraordinairre!
Comment: 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 this item into their shopping cart to be purchased as soon as possible!
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Summary: spectacular
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Review of Rivers & Tides
Comment: 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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Summary: An Artist Speaks
Comment: 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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