Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time

Name: Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
Genre: Documentary
Released: January 2, 2002
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 82

2002

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Roxie Releasing | Release Date: January 2, 2002 | TV-G

Summary: Thomas Riedelsheimer's documentary about Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy and his work.

Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: TV-G

Runtime: 90 min

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Michael Sragow

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. Read full review

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David Sterritt

The film would be more informative if it put Goldsworthy into the broader context of modernist art movements. It's visually ravishing from start to finish, though. Read full review

Desson Thomson

Watch this film. You may never look at nature indifferently again. Read full review

Ed Halter

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. Read full review

Stephen Holden

As the film's images accumulate, the movie becomes a sustained and ultimately refreshing meditation on surrender to the idea of temporality. Read full review

Alan G. Artner

I know of no documentary on a contemporary artist that conveys so much about the artist's work so lyrically and directly. Read full review

Fred Camper

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. Read full review

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AndrewF

Dec 1, 2014

I absolutely loved it. I thought I would die of boredom during the first minute, but then I calmed down, and was soon mesmerized by Andy's work. Watch this!

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ValarieB.

Feb 21, 2006

Andy pours his soul into his work and often takes it to the very edge of its collapse. That

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EvanJ.

Apr 22, 2003

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. The score by Frith is a subtle accompaniment that works well with the subject and towards the end links 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. The score by Frith is a subtle accompaniment that works well with the subject and towards the end links Goldsworthy back into his roots with a soft celtic tune over views of Scotland.… Expand

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