As the film’s images accumulate, the movie becomes a sustained and ultimately refreshing meditation on surrender to the idea of temporality.
THE NEW YORK TIMES

An outstanding documentary film detailing the work of British artist Andy Goldsworthy, sculptor, photographer, and creator of fanciful, ephemeral works. His astonishing and fleeting works of art are brought to the screen in the singular hour of their birth and sometimes disintegration. Although Goldsworthy also creates more durable works, the film focuses on the delicate, the fragile, the transient….The accompanying narrative effort to describe the purpose and intent of his work is secondary to the stunning visual artistry captured by the camera of director Thomas Riedelsheimer as he follows Goldsworthy to a dizzying variety of places….Stringing together brightly colored leaves, carefully chosen and placed to form a seemingly limitless chain, or into an eye-popping design, these remarkable works, and the process of creating them comes alive in this acutely visual film.
REEL MOVIE CRITIC

Truly beautiful…Filmmaker-cinematographer Thomas Reidelsheimer goes to great and sometimes inexplicable lengths to make visual corollaries to Goldsworthy’s ideas about underappreciated relationships between light, color, movement, balance, and fluidity of form in the real world, making Rivers and Tides a lively and always surprising cinematic gallery.
AMAZON