Product Description

Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy an artist whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature.DVD Features:Seven short films: Storm King Wall Leaf Horn Ice Arch Garlic Leaf Line Black Stone/Rain Shadow Ice Cake Colored Leaf HolePhoto galleryAndy Goldsworthy biographyFilmmaker biographyNew to this edition:Bonus film: Snowballs in SummerExclusive interview with filmmaker Thomas RiedelsheimerCompanion book with never-before-seen photos of Andy Goldsworthy creating his artwork during the making of the filmFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC: 767685983232 Manufacturer No: NVG-9832

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8894 in DVD
• Brand: NEW VIDEO GROUP INC
• Released on: 2006-10-31
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Collector's Edition, Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .40 pounds
• Running time: 155 minutes

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

Visual Wonder!
Andy Goldsworthy is an artist to the core of his being, nature is his bloodstream, and he is keenly attuned to its mysteries and rhythms. If you want to experience sculpture as a living breathing integral part of our environment, then treat yourself to the transitory poetry Andy creates so hypnotically.

Poor little Andy
This is the most hilariously overrated film I've seen in recent memory. It made me laugh harder than Superbad. And the piles of lavishing praise shown in these reviews take me to an extremely cynical place with the epiphany that Art is truly a minor part of peoples' lives. Even professional film critics (paired with the "user comments" of gullible civilians like/unlike yours truly) reserve a small window for the seeming "fine" arts, and whatever cow patty splats at their feet conveniently gets awarded the quota.

To be ironic and yet truthful, I highly recommend this film for some of the funniest moments in cinematic history. You will be cheering for Andy's little nature puzzles to collapse by the first quarter-hour, and when they do, it's devilish fun.

Rivers and Tides by Andy Goldsworthy
The film is a superb visual feast following the work of the outdoor artist, Andy Goldsworthy, as he uses water, leaves, snow, ice, petals, rocks, sticks and stalks to make art in the landscape. He talks movingly and poetically while he works.
The 2 copies I bought on Amazon were seriously flawed, with many breaks in the film, so I returned them and bought them from the Yorkshire Sculpture Park instead