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For more than a century, the Venice Biennale has been one of the world's largest and most prestigious arts events. This documentary focuses on the 2011 Biennale preview or Vernissage, where 30,000 arts insiders - artists, dealers, collectors, not to mention the rich and famous - flock to more than 89 national exhibitions, situated within the famous Giardini and other locations dotted throughout the city.
CARBON COPS is a hybrid series that blends science, the environment and observational documentary - tackling what we can all practically do about global warming. In each episode, the Carbon Cops lead a household through a step-by-step process that demonstrates how their current use of energy is contributing to global warming, and what changes they can make to end their wasting ways.
Just weeks before opening night, Moira Finucane and Jackie Smith - business partners as well as life partners - are juggling creative and logistical decisions, as well as caring for their two year-old twins. 40 artists from across the country are involved in their ambitious new show, Finucane and Smith's Carnival of Mysteries - including a suicidal clown, a human butterfly and a gothic librarian. The teetering balance of life, work and creativity are laid bare in Amy Gebhardt's intense portrait.
FAMILY FOOTSTEPS is an immersive documentary series which provides a 'sliding doors' experience for Australians to live the life they might have lived, had their parents or grandparents not immigrated to Australia.
This series follows Jonathon Welch as he attempts to audition, rehearse, conduct and arrange a new choir of female prisoners. Jonathon's aim is to use choral and community singing as a force for social good among the disadvantaged. Singing connects people, it builds self-esteem, it helps build social skills and encourages greater psychological well-being.
Helen Morse take the lead in 'Sundowner' a play about a mother coping with Alzheimer's disease. Morse's own mother suffered from Alzheimer's and rehearsing this play proves both traumatic and cathartic as it examines the importance of family and memory in how we live and how we define ourselves.
The first Australian citizen to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, Patrick White endured a life where it seemed his work was criticised more than it was praised. At one point White was described as ‘Australia’s most unreadable novelist’. Today he is regarded by many as one of the leading Australian authors of the 20th century. Monday 28 May, 2012 marks 100 years since White’s birth. In the lead up to this anniversary, Artscape’s PATRICK WHITE: WILL THEY READ ME WHEN I'M DEAD? looks back at a great Australian writer’s life through interviews with some of his biggest fans, critics and the man himself.
Born in Colombia and now residing in Sydney, Maria Fernanda Cardoso is a Yale graduate and an internationally renowned artist with a reputation for unique installations. Artscape looks at this amazing woman's work as she prepares for an exhibition featuring photographs, footage and 3D models of insect genitalia entitled It's Not Size That Matters, It Is Shape. The exhibition is part of a PhD project titled 'Museum of Copulatory Organs' or MoCo for short.
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