Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy

Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy

"River and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy working with Time" is a 2001 documentary film directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer about the British artist Andy Goldsworthy, who creates intricate and ephemeral sculptures from natural materials such as rocks, leaves, flowers, and icicles.

This spiritual literate documentary also received the Golden Gate Award Grand Prize for Best Documentary at the 2003 San Francisco International Film Festival.

            This documentary about nature and art. We can realize about art with a philosophical point of view. Time revolution and Evolution we can find in the air, color, water, leaves, stone, exactly captured and it’s all about the process of time over objects. Everything which is created, soon it will be destroyed by nature. Basically, it speaks about the natural concept of birth and death. Goldsworthy touches the heart of a place when he works with nature and his mark on it.

          We can see the processes of life and death through nature in this documentary. It represents that everything in life is temporary and everything will be changed or destroyed as time passes. It also speaks about the spiral shape of nature. In the natural world, everything is in a spiral or circular shape.