Television Programs of Interest (Sat 16th October to Fri 22nd October 2010)

• DALI AND THE CINEMA

This documentary explores Dali's contribution to the world of cinema, with productions like Un chien andalou, L'age d'or, sets for Hitchcock's film Spellbound, scripts written jointly with the Marx Brothers, the Destino project undertaken with Walt Disney (and only recently released), and some rarely seen film extracts held by private collectors or friends. The program also reveals some intimate moments of the life of Dali and Gala, and commentary from friends and associates.
Saturday 16 October 2010 3.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: PGWS
Duration: 60 mins

• THE SCULPTURE DIARIES: EP 3 OF 3

The final of this series examines sculpture in the landscape. Art critic Waldemar Januszczak visits the giant mountain carving in South Dakota of Lakota Indian Crazy Horse, started 60 years ago as an antidote to the Mount Rushmore presidential carvings.
Sunday 17 October 2010 11.10pm
ABC1 Rating: G *Final*CC Rpt
Duration: 60 mins
*The Learning Centre has this series available for loan on DVD

• ART NATION

Fenella Kernebone presents a 2010 Melbourne International Arts Festival special. Featured are aerial theatre group K@osmos, Ursula Yovich's 'Magpie Blues', pioneering video artist Bill Viola and singer Dan Sultan.
Sunday 17 October 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• EATING ART: EATING WITH PICASSO - EP 7 OF 10

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.
Monday 18 October 2010 6.30pm
SBS TWO Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• THE GENIUS OF DESIGN: OBJECTS OF DESIRE - EP 5 OF 5

Today's world is a designed world, a world of people and things with design as the critical interface between the two. Picking up the story of design from the drab days of the late 70s, The Genius Of Design tracks the explosion of wild creativity that defined the 'designer decades' of the 80s and early 90s.
Tuesday 19 October 2010 6.00pm
ABC1 Rating: G *Final*CC
Duration: 60 mins

• SEVEN AGES OF BRITAIN: AGE OF AMBITION - EP 7 OF 7

In the last episode of Seven Ages of Britain, David Dimbleby looks at how the 20th century saw ordinary Britons upturning ancient power structures and class hierarchies. The catalyst was the First World War, which embroiled the whole nation and called traditional values into question. The result was an ever-growing 'democratisation' of culture, with art coming off gallery walls, becoming an instrument of self-expression at the service of the individual.
Tuesday 19 October 2010 8.30pm
ABC1 Rating: PG *Final*CC
Duration: 65 mins

• STOP. REWIND: BOATS - EP 5 OF 13

We can dive deeper, travel faster, and even live on and in the water. Turns out, boat technology only has two lines of thought - make them faster, and make them safer. Unfortunately the two rarely go hand in hand!
Wednesday 20 October 2010 6.00pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC
Duration: 25 mins

• ART + SOUL: BITTER AND SWEET - EP 3 OF 3

In episode three, Hetti explores the themes of Bitter and Sweet and asks "How does the startling beauty - and humour - of Aboriginal art intertwine with reverberations of the past and our present"?
Thursday 21 October 2010 8.30pm
ABC1 Rating: *Final*CC
Duration: 60 mins