I was really moved by
Rivers and Tides. Andy Goldsworthy's work seems like a shoe-in for a documentary considering how compelling his books are, but what I wasn't expecting was how integrated his process is with his life.
It's hard to put into words, but it's like Andy Goldworthy lives less by the clock and more by the rotation of the Earth. He has become intimate with the slow and unrelenting pace of geological time. There was a certain patience in everything he did and said that made me take a closer look at how I live my own life.
My favorite piece of this doc was the segment when he returns home from his work in the field. To see how intimate he is with his own neighborhood and how disoriented he is when he leaves started a tektonic shift in my thinking. Basically, the notion Goldsworthy lives by is you can know far more about the world if you look deeply into one little area than if you travel all over the globe.