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Rivers and Tides

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KatiesFlicks
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4/17/2006 5:06 PM
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Rivers and Tides

Has anyone seen the documentary film Rivers and Tides (2001)?

tmoney
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4/18/2006 9:36 PM
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never heard of it. what have you heard about it?

quint
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4/19/2006 4:26 PM
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I've seen it. It's quite interesting. The insights into his process were quite inspiring.

paul
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4/24/2006 10:42 AM
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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.

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Rivers and Tides (2002)

KatiesFlicks
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4/25/2006 10:08 PM
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Well said. I had heard of it, but not know anyone who has seen it. Thanks for your insights, I plan on renting it soon then.

KatiesFlicks
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4/29/2006 7:25 PM
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FYI - For those in Grand Rapids, MI: Andy Goldsworthy is displaying some of his work at Frederik Meijer Gardens until May 14th. It's been there since January, so it may be old news.

joem18b
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6/13/2007 2:16 PM
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Well, it's a year later, but Goldsworthy is sort of timeless, so...

Once you're familiar with his work through his books and this documentary, if you have children, it can be fun to try some similar creations of your own. We went out in the fall, for example, and collected ginko leaves in a spectrum of colors from green to yellow to red to dark orange. Then we pinned them in a column to a tree using sharp little pieces of branch. Took a picture. Pretty neat.

Goldsworthy did a permanent installation on the Stanford campus. Whenever I jog over that way, I try to pass by and take it in.