Critic Reviews

• Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

  A beautiful, probing art documentary.

• Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

  Most of Goldsworthy's work is impermanent, but Rivers and Tides captures, permanently, both the art and the artist, showing us a creative, productive life in the process of being well-lived.

• Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

  The artistry of Thomas Riedelsheimer's film perfectly compliments Goldsworthy's art.

• Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic

  [Goldsworthy's] art is meant to be evanescent, like the nature he reveres. We are privileged to see it documented by the filmmaker's camera.

• , Dallas Morning News

  Mr. Goldsworthy's work is meant to be photographed -- 'photography is the way that I talk about my sculptures,' he says -- and Mr. Riedelsheimer rises to the occasion.

• Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press

  Assumes a meditative, Zen-like quality that sends the viewer floating away, like a leaf.

• Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

  If the film lets Goldsworthy overexplain what's happening, it also affords ample to time to languidly take in the imagery and let its beauty and simplicity speak for itself.

• Anton Bitel, Film4

  The seven so-called 'short films' that accompany Rivers And Tides are more like deleted scenes and outtakes from the film, but they're none the worse for that.

• Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

  An absorbing portrait of a unique artist's professional and personal communion with nature.

• Jeffrey Overstreet, Looking Closer

  His work reminds us of an artist's true focus: a meditative commitment to discovery, creativity, and the enhancement of God's own invention.

• James Plath, Movie Metropolis

  This is the meditative life illustrated, a meandering journey that links art, nature, and humans.

• Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

  Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time is an extraordinarily spiritually literate documentary about one of the world's greatest nature artists.

• Mark Robison, Reno Gazette-Journal

  A wondrous look at an artist and his work with lots of joyous surprises.

• Bruce Kirkland, Jam! Movies

  Hypnotic.

• Steve Schneider, Orlando Weekly

  When it's at its most self-aware, Rivers and Tides precociously tweaks the pessimist's view of art as an exercise in futility.

• Rob Thomas, Capital Times (Madison, WI)

  The film doesn't just explain Goldsworthy's vision -- it brings us closer to seeing the world through his eyes.

• Jeff Vice, Deseret News, Salt Lake City

  Rivers and Tides is subtle and meditative almost to a fault ... So it's fortunate that the film is relatively short and that its subject -- Andy Goldsworthy, a Scottish sculptor known for working with nature -- is so fascinating.

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