Rivers and Tides Details

Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy is renowned for landscape pieces whose natural fragility means they rarely outlive their creation by more than a few hours. Indeed, his unique achievement is almost solely known through photographic representation. This documentary seeks to rectify that situation by presenting the artist at work with the ice, twigs, rocks and other rural debris that form his materials. While never quite as transfixing as, say, artist Bernard Dufour's sketching in the drama La Belle Noiseuse, this is still an experience that repays patience, with Thomas Riedelsheimer's inspired use of time-lapse techniques providing a welcome distraction from Goldsworthy's laudable, but verbose, environmental musings.

A solid, sensitive portrait of the Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy, showing his method of using natural materials... read more on Time Out