The Gates chronicles the intricate process of completing the 7,503 saffron-coloured gates and fabric panels used in project, The Gates, Central Park, New York City, 1979-2005. The project is a site-specific art installation by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The documentary captures the soaring majesty of the project, along with its impact on thousands of amazed and occasionally sceptical witnesses who flocked to snowy Central Park to experience the art work over the course of 16 days, from the 12th of February, through to the 27th of February 2005.
Saturday 30 October 2010 2.45pm
SBS ONE Rating: PGWS Rpt
Duration: 100 mins
- JANET LAURENCE: THE LIFE WORLD
Take a behind-the-scenes journey into the intriguing work of one of Australia's most important living artists, Janet Laurence. Eight years in the making, this film follows Janet as she produces major installation artworks that have become part of our cities' landscapes.
Sunday 31 October 2010 9.00pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins
Investigates the ancient art of origami and talks to a number of contemporary practitioners who are taking the medium to new levels. Includes interviews with artists, mathematicians, scientists and paper makers.
Sunday 31 October 2010 10.45pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 55 mins
- ARTSCAPE: VOICES IN THE DARK
Voices in the Dark documents Christina Henri's epic project Roses from the Heart, involving the creation of 25,566 embroidered bonnets, one for every convict woman transported to Australia from Great Britain in the 1800s. Henri's project asks us to consider the true legacy female convicts, sentenced for crimes of poverty and condemned by society as whores and wretches, have made to the societies we live in today.
Sunday 31 October 2010 6.30pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 85 mins
*The Learning Centre has this program available for loan on DVDFenella Kernebone looks at a new music project at the Bionic Ear Institute in Melbourne; we take a behind-the-scenes peek at the play 'Black Face, White Mask' and folk band Cloud Control perform in the studio.
Sunday 31 October 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins
- EATING ART: THE LAST SUPPER - EP 9 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 1 November 2010 6.30pm
SBS TWO Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins
- STOP. REWIND: COMPUTERS - EP 7 OF 13
Where would the world be without computers? From humble beginnings, they've grown into the 'must have' item in just about every walk of life.
Wednesday 3 November 2010 6.00pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC
Duration: 25 mins
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