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Whistle Stopper - Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides
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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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Summary: A real story of the creative process
Comment: Just the most beautiful film about a an artist whose canvas and materials are nature.
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Summary: A personal look
Comment: The film maker's skill matches the sensitivity of Goldsworthy - - a seamless relationship. I watch this over and over. EVERY time, I see something that startles and wonder how I could have missed it before. In this way, the DVD is an ever renewing source of jolts... the best kind. It has also become something of a barometer of my own ability to SEE, to be in the moment. My tiny TV is in front of windows that look into the forest. I often have layers of nature in front of me, real and virtual. I hope to see another DVD like this in the future. I will be first in line.
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Summary: The Art of the Ephemeral
Comment: Andy Goldsworthy creates art that a 5-year old can understand, stacking rocks, arranging leaves, piling sticks, drawing in the snow. His "work" (as he keeps calling it) is simple in concept, but maybe not so simple to execute as well as he does.
And that is both the strength of it, and its downfall. The simplicity is unpretentious and pure in a way that art very rarely is, these days. At the same time it is fun and silly and unsophisticated in a way that makes Andy's serious pronouncements about "his work" and "my art" sound like a 5-year old kid who never got his parents' approval. The fact that he spends so much energy building contructs of such fragile beauty, which are almost always blown away by the wind or tides until nothing remains -- and the fact that he gets so agitated when the inevitable collapse occurs -- make you wonder after his sanity. Why does he torture himself so, what drives him to such Sisyphean frustration?
The film, by Thomas Reidelsheimer, deserves five stars for the languid portrait it paints of the hunger artist. Like his following film Touch The Sound, it is a masterful exploration of a driven personality, one which manages to both illuminate -- and puzzle over -- the subject artist. Both films also benefit from stunning soundtracks by Fred Frith.
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Summary: Rivers and Tides-an artist at work
Comment: Andy Goldsworthy is an amazing artist and seeing him in action is incredible. He builds sculptures out of natural materials (stones, leaves, ice) and then waits for nature to do her part in the natural destruction of them. His books have pictures of both the finished product and sometimes the sequence either leading up to or after the sculpture is complete, but to see the painstaking process of building (not always successfully) is very impressive. Nice narration too.
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Summary: great stuff
Comment: I enjoyed this video very much and thought that it was a beautiful piece of work. For anyone that it interested in seeing the earth and its makeup in a different light, this is something you might be interested in.
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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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