Saturday, 3 September 2016

Review of a Documentary “Rivers and Tides” by Andy Goldsworthy

“Rivers and Tides” by Andy Goldsworthy
        
           On 22nd August 2016, all the students of Department of English have attended a movie screening of “Rivers and Tide”.

Here I have shared my views regarding this film.
         




         In this documentary, Andy Goldsworthy makes different shapes by natural elements and creates his art works. The documentary is directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer and released in 2001. It very much connected with life and our nature that how we imitates the nature in different way. When we watch this documentary, it goes monotonously and the artist is doing the same work repeatedly until he gets the perfection.
  
        The very first artwork was shaping ice in the design of river, and we can observe that when he has completed his work the sun rises and ice started melting which shows the transience nature of human life. We always try to find something from nothingness and though if we get something it is not permanent, but the process of finding gives pleasure. Goldsworthy has said in his documentary that,

“My all efforts are trying to make something that is effortless”
  
        His another work was from stones, he was arranging stones in a shape of a big egg, four times it happened that when he is very near to complete it has collapsed he got disappointed too but on next day he started again and he has completed it. He has expressed his feelings that an artist is connected with his art piece, he said that,

“I am very much connected with the stones”

    
       He has used earth, air and water for his art work. He has used nature as canvas as well as colours and brush to express his ideas. 

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