a the jacket proclaims and this film be gorgeously shot and masterfully edit and and and yes and it be mesmerizingly beautiful . the timelessness that we perceive in stoic rock and in the unceasing ebb and flow of water frame the ephemeral work from goldsworthy hand so that in their very ephemeralness they point to eternity . and so the beauty of his composition haunt u with just a touch of melancholy weave in or in the word of matthew arnold from dover beach representlisten . you hear the grate roar of pebble which the wave draw back and and fling and at their return and up the high strand and begin and and cease and and then again begin and with tremulous cadence slow and and bring the eternal note of sadness in . at one point near the end of the film goldsworthy say that word do their job and but what i be do here say a lot more . a a wordsmith myself i take no offense and not for a moment do i think him immodest because the combination of form and time and change and texture and color and composition that goldsworthy painstakingly and intuitively creates and be indeed something more than mere word can say . at another point he remark on what be here to stay . and what isn not . that be his theme . i think that artist sometime in the twentieth century become acutely aware of how ephemeral even the great work of art be compare to the vast expanse of cosmic time while and so they begin to reflect this understanding by compose work that be deliberately ephemeral . the idea be and that by emphasize how short live be even the mighty work of human and a sense of the timelessness of art would be express . perhaps part of the effectiveness of goldsworthy work be in this sort of expression . he painstakingly compose some form of straw or leave where the tide will reach it and or place it in the river where it will be sweep away while and in this process be merge both the composition and it ephemerality . both the transitory and the timeless be necessary for u to understand our world and our place within it . and it be important that these work be do within the context of nature so that what be compose be set within what be natural . thus the wall of stone and the egg of stone that goldsworthy construct be silent and solid yet we know that they be not monument to eternity and but instead will stay for some undefined length of time and then dissipate and return to a state much like that which exist before we come along . this be art a art should be and akin to the spiritual . in a sense goldsworthy work be an inarticulated understanding . it be an experience purely of time and form . in a sense his work answer shelley famous poem ozymandias by say and even a the tide wash the work away and and even a the river dissipate the expression and even so the art live on because of our experience of it . similarly one think of tibetan sand painting so carefully compose and measure out and and then just a they be so beautifully and preciously finish and they be give to the wind and so that we might know that all be flux . yet and in the modern world these work of art endure in photo and video . goldsworthy be an accomplished photographer ( of necessity i would say ) and all his work and even the unsuccessful one and he tell u and be photograph so that he can look back at them in a more reflective mood and see what he have accomplish and what he have not . this cinematic production direct by thomas riedelsheimer with the beautiful and appropriately haunt music by fred frith be not to be miss . it be one of the most beautiful documentary that i have ever see and one of the most spiritual .