Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time

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                 Once again warmly welcome to my blog. In this blog I have discussed about the frame study of the Rivers and Tides:Andy Holdsworthy working with time directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer . This blog is part of my thinking activity task, wich was assigned by Dr. Dilip Barad sir.

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💠 Rivers and Tides :-

                                  Rivers and Tides 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. Documentarian Thomas Riedelsheimer follows the soft-spoken and unpretentious Goldsworthy to reveal the ever-evolving nature of his creative process and his works, which ultimately become a part of their natural environs and are often destroyed as a result. The main theme of this short documentary is "Transitory nature of art and life". It’s both ironic and fitting that film is used to preserve some of Goldsworthy’s art.

                   In this movie we find many important frames wich played a vital role in the movie. So, let's discuss many important frames.

                             Rivers and Tides: the industrial technology that Goldsworthy rejects rather remarkably captures the poetic beauty of creation and destruction that his art represents. The film itself becomes a testament to the ideal synthesis between an industrialized form and its naturalist subject matter.

                                Goldsworthy  uses the natural environment to explore histories and experiences that are quickly being rendered obsolete by industrialization and mass commercialization. He desires to "touch the heart of the place," to know it, its people, and its history intimately. But this knowledge requires a sustained time and effort that is difficult within the demands of contemporary life. Goldsworthy's sculptures, their forms determined by landscapes' raw elements, resist current impulses to carve land into a profitable commodity, instead highlighting the beauty of the environment and its natural processes.

                       

                   Goldsworthy's art persistently questions contemporary definitions of "usefulness." While constructing a stone structure on a beach with the tide quickly rising, he admonishes the camera crew, "I think you should stop filming and collect stones instead. Do something useful." The command sounds ironic, since his art must seem to many observers the epitome of uselessness: he takes the detritus of his surroundings - broken stones, fallen leaves, ice, dead reeds, driftwood - to construct living sculptures that will eventually be disassembled by weather.

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