Television Programs of Interest (Sat 1st May to Fri 7th May 2010)

• MESSAGE STICK: TWELVE CANOES - EP 3 OF 3

A series of short films that paint a compelling portrait of the people, history, culture and place of the Yolngu people whose homeland is the Arafura Swamp of north-central Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.
Saturday 1 May 2010 11.30am
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 30 mins

• EATING ART: SQUARE MEALS

Oliver Peyton is a UK-based, Irish restaurateur and art connoisseur. In this series he follows the cultural trail throughout Europe and the US of landmark works of art which have food as a central motif.
Saturday 1 May 2010 4.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: GWS
Duration: 30 mins

• RAISING VALHALLA

Architecture to the service of art. What goes into the creation of an opera house? Experience the passion and the drama in this one-hour documentary about the birth of the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, set in the heart of downtown Toronto.
Sunday 2 May 2010 11.05pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 60 mins

• ANATOMY: SKIN - EP 1 OF 3

Anatomy is a documentary series comprised of three unusual and compelling stories - Skin, Heart and Muscle - which explore how sexuality and the body work together as driving forces in the creative process. The first film in the series, Skin, examines the 25-year collaboration between tattooist/artist eX de Medici and her subject Geoff Ostling as they negotiate the possibility of bequeathing Geoff's tattooed skin as an artwork when he dies.
Sunday 2 May 2010 9.00pm
ABC2 Rating: MCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins
*This program is available for loan from the Learning Centre.

• ANNIE LEIBOVITZ: LIFE THROUGH A LENS

Annie Leibovitz has produced some of the most iconic images of the last 30 years and is, literally, our most influential woman photographer. She has shot the rich and famous, the profound and powerful, the exceptional and notorious. Her camera has documented the horrors of war - most recently in Sarajevo and Rwanda. Masterful at exposing her photographic subjects, Annie's own life has been private and protected. In this film, she made the decision to bare her artistic process, her personal journey and her delicate balancing of fame and family to the camera - a camera that is being vigilantly pointed by a filmmaker who is her younger sister.
Sunday 2 May 2010 7.30pm
ABC2 Rating: M WS
Duration: 85 mins

• ANTONY GORMLEY: MAKING SPACE

Beeban Kidron follows British sculptor Antony Gormley over several months as he prepares a new exhibition for London's Hayward Gallery.
Sunday 2 May 2010 4.30pm
ABC1 CC Rpt
Duration: 50 mins

• ART NATION

Fenella Kernebone profiles visual artist Shaun Gladwell; 14 artists consider the concept of wilderness; 'My Secret Art Life' finds a secret romance writer; and Bridezilla performs.
Sunday 2 May 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• DESIGNERS: PLASTIC BOTTLE - EP 9 OF 10

Two industrial designers devise an innovative new plastic sports drink bottle and a special sealing cap. The program introduces plastic as a material and shows the most common methods of manufacture used in the plastics industry.
Monday 3 May 2010 10.30am
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 15 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Featuring the key to a good night's sleep; a way to transform your truck; and an invention that puts bicycles in the spotlight.
Wednesday 5 May 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• THE CLOSET TALES OF AUSTRALIAN FASHION: LOVER - EP 3 OF 4

Nic Briand and Susien Chong of the label Lover make every effort to exist on the fashion fringe. This episode takes a look at their reluctant rise to fashion fame; from humble beginnings at Bondi Markets to the fashion pages of US Vogue, it explores the dynamic relationship between this creative duo.
Thursday 6 May 2010 3.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: PGCC WS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins
*This program is available for loan from the Learning Centre.

• PICTURE PERFECT HOMES: WAREHOUSE CONVERSION - LONDON

Ptolemy Dean is going in search of Britain's finest period homes. At all times on his journey, he'll be taking his trusty sketchbook to record the details of materials. This episode features a warehouse conversion.
Thursday 6 May 2010 12.30am (early hours)
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 15 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED: EDINBURGH

Kevin McCloud returns to Edinburgh, Scotland, to see whether a couple's attempts to transform a wreck of an old stone building have been successful. When Reuben and April came across a ruined 19th century house amid the tower blocks of Leith in Edinburgh, they saw it as their future home.
Thursday 6 May 2010 6.05pm
ABC1 Rating: G *New Series*CC
Duration: 55 mins

• LOST WORLDS: SECRETS OF THE FIRST EMPEROR

The amazing army of terracotta soldiers is Qin Shi Huangdi's most widely known legacy. This documentary looks at how he created the greatest empire of antiquity, planned the first Great Wall, and built the largest burial site in the world. But at what cost?
Friday 7 May 2010 7.30pm
SBS TWO Rating: M, A, VCC WS Rpt
Duration: 60 mins

• EYE CANDY

A portrait of the young and successful photographer David LaChapelle. Renowned for the wild imagination and erotic charge of his images, LaChapelle has become the hottest photographer of the moment. Features his shots of Justin Timberlake, Pamela Anderson and Elton John.
Friday 7 May 2010 10.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: M, N, SCC WS Rpt
Duration: 60 mins