Rivers and Tides

 Documentary Film : Rivers and Tides

Hello reads! 

 This blog is about the frame study of the documentary film : Rivers and Tides, given by Dr. Dilip Barad sir as a task on google Classroom. 

#Rivers and Tides :

 Rivers and tides is a 2001 documentary film directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer about the British artist Andy Goldsworthy. It is about Transitory nature of art and life Goldsworthy create intricated and temporary sculpture from natural materials such as rocks, leaves flowers, snow, ice, clay. He connects creativity of art with deep philosophical meaning of life and nature. River means growth it has deep connotations like River of growth goes through trees, growth of animal( birth), River of sheep, flow and movement. 

Brief introduction of the documentary:

   Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time is the most spiritually literate documentary. It won the Golden Gate Award Grand Prize for Best Documentary at the 2003 San Francisco International Film Festival. 

   Try to picture an art piece that cannot be put in a museum, purchased by wealthy collectors, or displayed in a corporate foyer or boardroom- because it disintegrates in less than a day, perhaps even within 20 seconds. 

  Try to imagine executing artwork through the medium of iron oxide chalk, raw sheep's wool, flower blossoms, leaves and grass, feathers, random stick and stones, broken rocks, pieces of icicle, green iris blades and red berries, thorns, brachen, or handfuls of snow. Try to fathom the notion that an artist could a take stroll in the woods, along a riverbank, no canvases or pendestals or quarried granite or polished wood - manage to create unutterably beautiful art from the objects and materials he finds by chance.

"Art for me is a form of nourishment" He tells us. 

 

       Having isolated pieces of a new environment and formed them into an unexpected artifact then watched it dissipate back to its component parts in the larger setting.