Edith,
This information is fron the Brooklyn International Film Festival Films 2002 site
www.wbff.org/films/detail.asp?cid=3&fid=174
Kathy Evans
Purdue University
RIVERS AND TIDES
(Fluss der Zeit)
East Coast Premiere
Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Germany/Scotland, 2001, 90min
Format: 35mm (screening) - Super 16
(shooting)
Festival Edition: 2002
all 2002 films
Category: Documentary
all Documentary films
Winner Best Producer - 2002
Cast:
Andy Goldsworthy
Crew:
Producer: Annedore von Donop,
Mediopolis, Berlin - Co-producers: Trevor Davies, Leslie
Hills, Skyline, Edinburgh -
Screenwriter, Editor, Cinematographer: Thomas Riedelsheimer -
Sound: Fred Frith
Sales:
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GmbH, Bülowstr.66, 10783 Berlin, Germany - T:
0049-30-235560-0 - F: 0049-30-235560-66
- WORLD SALES: Julian Curtis, Ros Ali,
Electric Sky, Friese Greene House,
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Synopsis
“The river, the sea made solid. And stone
made liquid. Then you see something you
never saw before; that was always there but
you were blind to it.” Landscape
sculptor Andy Goldsworthy is renowned
throughout the world for his work in ice,
stone, leaves, wood. Some of his works stand
and remain in the landscape; others
decay, melt, or are blown away. His own
remarkable still photographs are
Goldsworthy’s way of talking about his often
ephemeral works, of fixing them in
time. Many find places in the exquisite and
best-selling books that have been the
bases of his wide popularity. Now with this
deeply moving film, shot in four
countries and across four seasons on Super
16mm, and the first major film he has
allowed to be made, the elusive element of
time adheres to his sculpture.
Biography
Born in Germany 1963. Studied 1984 - 1992 at
filmschool in Munich. Since 1986
freelanced filmmaker, cameraman, cutter,
working in Germany and around the
world (e.g. Somalia, Nepal, Tibet,
Southafrika, Tansania, Newsealand, Latvia,
Russia, Japan). Camera-classes at Munich
filmschool HFF. Camerawork with 35
and 16 mm and all videoformats.
Filmmaker's note
Director Thomas Riedelsheimer worked with
Andy Goldsworthy for over a year to
shoot this film. What Riedelsheimer found
was a profound sense of breathless
discovery and uncertainty in Goldsworthy’s
work, in contrast to the stability of
conventional sculpture. There is risk in
everything that Goldsworthy does. He takes
his fragile work - and it can be as fragile
in stone as in ice or twigs - right to the
edge of its collapse, a very beautiful
balance and a very dramatic edge within the
film. The film captures the essential
unpredictability of working with rivers and with
tides, feels into a sense of liquidity in
stone, travels with Goldsworthy underneath
the skin of the earth and reveals colour and
energy flowing through all things.
Riedelsheimer’s film, like Goldsworthy’s
sculpture, grows into something beyond
the simple making of an object. It touches
the heart of what Goldsworthy does and
who he is, in much the same way that
Goldworthy touches the heart of a place
when he works in it and leaves his mark on
it. In this film, which is Goldworthy’s
work as much as Riedelsheimer’s, "you see
something you never saw before; that
was always there but you were blind to".
Filmography
- Rivers And Tides
Festivals
San Francisco International, Turin,
Edinbourgh, Berlin, Montreal
Edith Crowe wrote:
> Thomas Riedelsheimer's documentary on Andy Goldsworthy, _Rivers and
> Tides_, has been showing near campus. One of the faculty asked if I
> could add a VHS or DVD version to our collection. I'd love
> to--Goldsworthy is one of my favorite artists and I thought the film was
> excellent--but I haven't yet been able to find any purchase info. Tried
> the Usual Suspects (Films for the Humanities & Arts, Insight Media,
> Facets, Media for the Arts, Video Data Bank) with no luck.
>
> ARLIS-L is my last hope. If none of you know where to find it, it
> probably doesn't exist in VHS/DVD.
>
> Edith Crowe
> Art & Humanities Librarian
> San Jose State University
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