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DVD Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides
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
A very engaging documentary about Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy, whose work consists mostly of ephemeral sculptures made from elements from nature. His work is made of rocks, leaves, grass, ice, etc., that gets blown away when the tide arrives at the beach or the wind blows at the field. Thus, most of Goldsworthy's works don't really last, except as photos or films of what they were. Now, one can argue that Goldsworthy's works are a reflection of mortality, or words to that effect, but isn't it easier to say that what he does is just beautiful art. And at a time when the stereotype about artists is that they are mostly bitter, pretentious, often mentally unstable people who live in decrepit urban settings, Goldsworthy seems to be the opposite: a stable, unpretentious, family oriented person who loves nature and lives in a small village in Scotland.
Left Speechless
As an artist about to enter graduate study, I found this film truly inspiring. This documentary work allows the viewer to experience the language that Andy Goldsworthy uses to communicate with his medium. He creates a dialogue of understanding with his works. He is not an artist trying to topple government officials or one caught up in over-worked themes. Instead, he attempts to address the lost connection between people and nature. Highly recommended to anyone, not just artists. The sense of journey is amazing.
A good item for middle-aged, stoned people or second year art students
This thing is way too long and renders an interesting artist boring.
Far too self-involved and masterbatory. I actually liked A.G.'s work before I saw this movie. Now? Not so much. I just can't deal with people who take themselves that seriously, especially a guy who spends all day arranging twigs.
The attempt at creating drama out of a dude stacking rocks is rediculous at best.
Just stick to the picture books if you want to continue enjoying this artist.
One nonfiction film that truly creates a narrative journey, My Architect is filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn's engrossing search for his father. Louis Kahn, one of the most celebrated architects of the 20th century, died in 1974 and left behind a highly compartmentalized life, including two children born out of wedlock to two mistresses. Nathaniel interviews the members of this somewhat puzzled family, but his deepest experiences are visits to the buildings that his father made (such as the grand Salk Institute in La Jolla, California), culminating in an emotional trip to Bangladesh. Here, Louis Kahn designed a massive government complex, a soaring achievement (and fascinating paradox--a Muslim capital designed by a Jewish man). This film asks: where does an artist truly live? In his... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Nathaniel Kahn DVD Release Date: Released the 15 February 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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After you've seen 5 Films About Christo & Jeanne-Claude, your appreciation for art and artists will be permanently enlightened. Spanning three decades of unique collaboration between controversial public-art creator Christo, his creative partner and wife Jeanne-Claude, and cinema verité pioneers David and Albert Maysles (Salesman, Grey Gardens, and many other award-winning films), this DVD set of five captivating, unscripted documentaries is a living chronicle of art as a public challenge, inviting the viewer to witness the creation and installation of temporary artworks that triumphantly illustrate (as noted by Salon.com essayist Charles Taylor) "the collision between art and everyday life." Whether they are raising a massive "Valley Curtain" of vibrant... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Christo - Jeanne-Claude Director(s): Albert Maysles - David Maysles - Charlotte Zwerin - Susan Froemke - Deborah Dickson DVD Release Date: Released the 27 April 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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