Two Autumns. Futatsu no Aki. The work of Andy Goldsworthy in Scotland and Japan - ACE248.3

Caption: "MORNINGS. Gozen." Japanese village road. Children on their way to school. Huge class of children skipping with ropes out of doors. Children going in to school. Goldsworthy placing bright red leaves on rock in water. Goldsworthy VO: he started this work in the morning knowing that the sun would make the colour even more intense. Some works have to wait for the moment they are activated by the sun or light. Red-leafed tree on hillside above; leaf-covered rock in water below. Goldsworthy VO explains that a single leaf has little colour; he groups the leaves to make their colour more intense. Scottish village street, children going to school. Goldsworthy covering rock with yellow leaves. Explains that he takes out the centre vein to make the leaves more supple. Compares the result with a roof: tiling from the bottom and overlapping the. Shots of Japanese roof and Japanese workmen building another. Overlapping leaves on the rock. Red rock and yellow rock. Goldsworthy VO says this work helps him to know the rock itself. Scottish schoolchildren at assembly; teacher asking them what they know about Goldsworthy’s work. Goldsworthy shaking leaves from a tree. Line of leaf-framed rocks. Teacher’s VO continues. Japanese priests. Scottish teacher’s VO continues. Japanese purification ceremony. Goldsworthy VO talking about the quality of light; the valley he works in has been in shadow. Line of leaf-framed rocks. Goldsworthy VO talking about looking for ‘windows’ of sunlight. Goldsworthy fixing leaves to trunks of trees; VO describes the dark lines of the trees, the light, the shadows, the effect produced. Goldsworthy at Drumlanrig Castle, discussing with John Scott, the Duke of Buccleuch, a work to be made near Scaw’d Law. Scott’s VO describing how he first met Goldsworthy. Goldsworthy walking across moor and up hillside. Scott’s VO says that the landscape is familiar to him not least because it’s been in his family for generations, but Goldsworthy offers a fresh perspective and a novel approach.Goldsworthy building cairn. Goldsworthy throwing bundles of leaves into the air on hillside. Tree in water surrounded by turns of wire. Close-ups of the wire.