Thursday, September 10, 2009

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 12th September to Fri 18th September 2009)

  • GOLDEN SANDALS: THE ART OF REG MOMBASSA
Golden Sandals: The Art of Reg Mombassa, reveals another side to one of this country's most iconic and celebrated artists. Chris O'Doherty, better known as Reg Mombassa, is a renowned rock star, artist and writer, who has influenced Australian culture for thirty years. From performing in his band, Mental As Anything, to Mambo designer, he has made two generations of people laugh, dance and wonder at the beauty of his creations.
Saturday 12 September 2009 5.30pm (Eastern States, SA & NT)
SBS ONE Rating: (PG, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 30 mins
*This program is available in the Learning Centre collection
  • THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ALBERT KAHN: FAR EAST - EXPEDITIONS TO EMPIRES, EP 8 OF 9
In this episode Albert Khan's photographers travel through Vietnam and Cambodia in French Indochina, to pre-World War 2 Japan and British India.
Saturday 12 September 2009 3.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: (PG, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 60 mins
  • EUGENE AND BERENICE: PIONEERS OF URBAN PHOTOGRAPHY
Images of the cities that inspired photographers Eugene Atget and Berenice Abbott are used to explore the connection between the photographers and their impact on modern art.
Saturday 12 September 2009 2.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: (G, WS)
Duration: 60 mins
  • TIM MARLOW MEETS PAUL SMITH
Tim Marlow meets some of the world's most admired creative individuals to reveal how visual art inspires and motivates them in their life and work. Designer Paul Smith meets Tim at his studio in London.
Saturday 12 September 2009 4.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: (G, WS)
Duration: 30 mins
  • SIR JOHN SOANE: AN ENGLISH ARCHITECT, AN AMERICAN LEGACY
All great art engages in a dialogue with the past. Architecture is no exception, as this film shows in its examination of the legacy of Sir John Soane (1753 - 1837), an English architect of rare genius whose influence on a generation of America's foremost architects is profound. Among them, Henry Cobb, Michael Graves, Philip Johnson, Richard Meier, Robert Stern, Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, all acknowledge their debt to Soane and his idiosyncratic reinterpretations of the architecture of antiquity.
Sunday 13 September 2009 3.50pm
ABC1 Rating: (G, Rpt)
Duration: 70 mins
  • TALKING HEADS: JENNY KEE
Studio interview program getting behind the 'public face' of fascinating men and women in our society. This episode features Jenny Kee.
Monday 14 September 2009 3.15am (early hours)
ABC1 Rating: (G, Rpt)
Duration: 30 mins
  • ARTSCAPE: MARC NEWSON IN CONVERSATION
This week on Artscape, Fenella Kernebone chats to legendary Australian designer Marc Newson. Newson is one of the world's most popular industrial designers. Born in Sydney in 1963, he graduated in jewellery and sculpture at the Sydney College of the Arts back in 1984. Today, with a career spanning over 20 years, Newson has worked for studios in Sydney, Tokyo, Paris and London, and designed everything from chairs, watches and kitchen gadgets to surfboards, cars and jet aeroplanes.
Tuesday 15 September 2009 10.00pm
ABC1 Rating: (G)
Duration: 30 mins
  • THE NEW INVENTORS
Hosted by James O'Loghlin, The New Inventors presents our Bright Sparks Special! Kids are taking over the studio, as the country's brightest young people show their inventiveness. The inventors are kids, the judges are kids and even James may have met his match... The panel is made up of kids who have already appeared on the show as inventors.
Wednesday 16 September 2009 8.00pm
ABC1 Rating: (G)
Duration: 30 mins
  • WORLD'S GREENEST HOMES: EP 9 OF 13
Emmanuel Belliveau looks at one of the largest eco-homes in the US; an underground energy-efficient house in Cheltenham; a village on the Florida Panhandle designed to withstand hurricanes; and a British Columbia super home.
Thursday 17 September 2009 6.00pm
ABC1
Duration: 55 mins

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