Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time

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Some memorable and striking images, but it's a whole movie about art. Who really cares?

The pacing is somewhat slow and repetitive, but somehow Andy Goldsworthy really captures what it means to be an artist and what it means to explore different ideas and materials from nature or from anywhere.

A great art documentary, exploring a theme and medium both timeless and constantly changing. His ability to merge the natural world with the metaphors we ascribe to it is uncanny. Speaks a lot on context of an art piece/sculpture, and how that alters understanding and appreciation. Also good for a musing on natural found art. Could have ~15 min. trimmed, though, and he sometimes gets a little loose and new age-y with his terms.

For all of his airy, pseudo-mystic talk the work of this artist does not really speak in volumes to me. By the end, he seems more like a schoolboy fascinated by some effect of throwing about pigment or snow, and then coming home with dirtied clothes. I enjoyed Fred Frith's soundtrack, but it wasn't as interesting as some of his other work.

I do not have a lot to say but this is a really fascinating film about art, one with some wonderful images of nature because of the artist and his speciality in using natural materials.

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Riedelsheimer captures - using the permanence of film - art that embraces the impermanence of nature, and so captures one-of-a-kind moments of time, fatigue, death and failure. It's a gorgeous, unorthodox subject. However, you'd probably only love it if you typically stop to watch video installations at art museums.

A bit too pretentious for me, like how he talks about he wants to understand a stone. And the music... mweh. His art however is quite beautiful

This is a kind of "art documentary" film. But it feels like a nature documentary. As this film is not quite like any other on my list thus far, the score is not terribly meaningful. But it certainly is worth watching for the unique enchantment experience Andy Goldsworthy shares with the world here.

Relaxing if pointless. Who buys his work?

loved the man's art.