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BBC Arena – B.Catling Where Does It All Come From (2021)

12/12/2021 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

BBC Arena – B.Catling: Where Does It All Come From? (2021)
English | Size: 930 MB
Category: Documentary

An eye-popping insight into the extraordinary, late-flourishing career of maverick artist, teacher and performer Brian Catling RA, whose unique vision and imagination are celebrated through a shifting narrative of newly restored archive material, exclusive interviews and specially shot footage. [Read more…]

BBC Arena – Painted with My Hair (2021)

19/11/2021 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

BBC Arena – Painted with My Hair (2021)
English | Size: 1.15 GB
Category: Documentary

Painted with My Hair is inspired by the paintings, poetry and letters of Donny Johnson, [Read more…]

BBC Arena – Remember the Secret Policeman’s Ball (2004)

11/03/2021 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

BBC Arena – Remember the Secret Policeman’s Ball (2004)
English | Size: 1.34 GB
Category: Documentary

A celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Secret Policeman’s Ball in aid of Amnesty International. Many of Britain’s finest comedians, including John Cleese, Sir Bob Geldof, Alan Bennett, Jennifer Saunders, Stephen Fry, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Ruby Wax, Lenny Henry, Sting, Phil Collins and Rowan Atkinson are reunited in a reflection of the changes in British comedy over the last quarter of a century. The film examines the event, with interviews and recollections of the original stars alongside classic comedy moments. [Read more…]

BBC Arena – Kusama: Infinity (2019) 720p HDTV

23/09/2019 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

BBC Arena – Kusama: Infinity (2019) 720p HDTV
English | Size: 1.25 GB
Category: Documentary

Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama’s work pushed boundaries that often alienated her from her peers and those in power in the art world. Kusama was an underdog with everything stacked against her: the trauma of growing up in Japan during World War II, life in a dysfunctional family that discouraged her creative ambitions, sexism and racism in the art establishment, and mental illness. [Read more…]

BBC Arena – Unstoppable Sean Scully and the Art of Everything (2019)

19/04/2019 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

BBC Arena – Unstoppable: Sean Scully and the Art of Everything (2019)
English | Size: 1.06 GB
Category: Documentaries

A year in the life of abstract artist Sean Scully, one of the world’s richest painters. Little known at home but a superstar abroad, Sean flies around the world to open 15 major museum exhibitions – a journey that also reveals his extraordinary life story.

Now, at the age of 73, Scully opens up about his unique experiences spanning 55 years in an often hostile art world – how he built a reputation from nothing, having grown up penniless on the streets of Dublin and London, often homeless as a child and running with street gangs as a teenager, to turn his striped paintings into the huge success they are today.
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