The Confluence Spring 2003

Rivers and Tides-Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time

The Placer High School Art Department, Protect American River Canyons and the California State Parks Foundation proudly present a rare film about an artist that is, in itself, a work of art. Rivers and Tides is an extraordinary journey into the world and mind of Scottish sculpture Andy Goldsworthy. A land-artist who uses materials from nature to make site-specific works, Goldsworthy allows the elements to have the last say in his beautiful creations as his ingenious patterns of wood, leaves, stone and ice move and erode over time. Impermanence and death are as much a part of nature as life each inseparable from each other. German filmmaker Thomas Riedeisheimer followed the artist for over a year in several outdoor locations, intimately documenting his improvisational process and capturing the serene spectacle of his works and their delicate changes. Riedeisheimer reveals a man who is unable to live without creating art and the connection to nature that it brings to him.

Although Goldsworthy's private and often ephemeral pieces have been documented extensively in still photographs, this remarkable movie uses the artists own voice to guide us through his process and help us "... See something you never saw before, that was always there but you were blind to it." The film moves at a very leisurely and calm pace washing over its audience and soothing its viewers with its lush photography and melodic score by Fred Frith. Rivers and Tides is a sensual and poetic masterpiece.

Two screenings of the film will be open to the public at the Placer High School Theater, located at High and Agard Streets in Auburn, on Monday, May 12 and Tuesday, May 13 at 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7:00 pm.
Seating is on a first come first serve basis. Admission is free. Donations are welcomed to benefit PARC's American River Youth Adventures Programs.

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