A film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture looking at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. An exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type.
Saturday 18 April 2009 1.00pm
SBS Rating: (M, L, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 60 mins
*The Learning Centre has this film available for loan on DVDPainter and celebrated film director Peter Greenaway's fierce criticism of today's visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt's The Nightwatch.
Saturday 18 April 2009 2.55pm
SBS Rating: (PG, WS)
Duration: 95 mins
- MESSAGE STICK: BORN IN THIS SKIN
Vernon Ah Kee is a portraitist, graphic and video artist. In 2009 Ah Kee will become one of a select group of Australians whose work will be displayed on the most important visual arts stage in the world, the Venice Biennale.
Sunday 19 April 2009 1.30pm
ABC1 Rating: (G)
Duration: 30 mins
- ANTARCTIC OASIS: A HAUNTING JOURNEY
Tells the story of a trip to South Georgia Island by four Australian artists, who sailed in a yacht from South America to paint and photograph the island and its wildlife.
Sunday 19 April 2009 4.30pm
ABC1 Rating: (G, Rpt)
Duration: 30 mins
- ARTSCAPE: THE ART LIFE - OUT THERE, EP 1 OF 3
The Art Life started life as a blog - www.artlife.blogspot.com and was written by a group of anonymous artists and writers. The blog was launched into the virtual world of the web in 2004 and quickly gained notoriety in art circles for its candid views, enthusiastic support for artists and galleries, and its healthy disdain for the crusty establishment art critics of the old media. The Art Life's readership grew steadily from just a few hundred hits a month to thousands a week. The Art Life is presented by Andrew Frost, the editor and co-founder of The Art Life's blog and who is a middle-aged white guy in a suit who adores banging on about art.
Sunday 19 April 2009 7.00pm
ABC2 Rating: (PG, Rpt)
Duration: 30 mins
- ARTISTS AT WORK: DAVID FRAZER - EP 3 OF 3
David Frazer is a Melbourne-based artist who specialises in various age-old forms of printmaking such as wood carving and etching. With imagination and wit, Frazer's work is imbued with images of nostalgia, love and longing; but always invested with optimism and his signature wry humour.
Sunday 19 April 2009 10.00pm
ABC2 Rating: (G, Rpt)
Duration: 30 mins
- ARTSCAPE: ANATOMY - HEART, EP 2 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 second film in the series, Heart, examines what makes a muse. Traditionally thought of as a woman who is the artistic inspiration of the male, what happens when both parties of the relationship are artists and both are women? KABOOM!
Tuesday 21 April 2009 10.05pm
ABC1 Rating: (M)
Duration: 30 mins
- THE TRUE LEGEND OF THE EIFFEL TOWER
The True Legend of the Eiffel Tower is a docu-drama that chronicles the life of Gustave Eiffel, and is the epic story of the Eiffel Tower, one of the most visited monuments in the world. It covers the construction of the tower, Eiffel's efforts to have the Tower used for wireless telegraphy so it would not be torn down, and his failure on the Panama Canal project. The film sticks mostly to facts -"two-and-a-half million rivets, half of which are assembled in the workshop, will support the structure" - revealed in narration and through the daily newspaper articles.
Wednesday 22 April 2009 1.00pm
SBS Rating: (PG, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 105 mins
Hosted by James O'Loghlin, The New Inventors brings you the latest from the world of Australian invention. As we go through life encountering problems great and small, the inventors of Australia are thinking to themselves, "there must be a better way"... Deciding the winner of these three inventions are: engineer James Bradfield Moody, designer Alison Page, and inventor and journalist Christine Kininmonth.
Wednesday 22 April 2009 8.00pm
ABC1
Duration: 30 mins
Martin Pease is a successful commercial architect, used to designing large scale prestigious offices and high profile projects including Los Angeles' Getty Centre. However, he's about to embark on a much more personal project - a one-off customised house for his family.
Thursday 23 April 2009 6.10pm
ABC1 Rating: (G, Rpt)
Duration: 55 mins
*The Learning Centre has episodes of this series available for loan on DVD- PAPER DOLLS: AUSTRALIAN PIN-UPS OF WORLD WAR TWO
Australia during the Second World War is usually pictured as austere, a time of rations and perseverance. Women from this time are often portrayed as domesticated or working for the war effort. Sexuality was dangerous and mentioned only in reference to the allure of the visiting American soldiers. Fashion was negated for the khaki greens and greys of uniforms. This documentary delves into the dark of war and shows how the pinup girls of the time were pictures of hope, of a better time and of people's longing for fun.
Friday 24 April 2009 7.30pm
SBS Rating: (PG, WS)
Duration: 65 mins
Director Don Letts' documentary Punk: Attitude takes viewers down anti-establishment memory road to examine the politics, fashion, and music of the punk pop culture trend. The program features interviews and shares performance footage from a variety of famous musical acts including Black Flag, Jello Biafra, Legs McNeil, The Ramones, and proto-punks The Stooges and New York Dolls.
Friday 24 April 2009 10.30pm
ABC2 Rating: (MA, L, D, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 95 mins
