UK

True Stories Painting The Mind (26th May 2009) [PDTV (Xvid)]

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• Rate this torrent +  |  -

Torrent info

Torrent Files List

Torrent description

This torrent was uploaded from www.TheBox.bz (signup is open and free) - the home of all British TV



True Stories - Painting The Mind

Tuesday, 26th May 2009
10pm to 11:10pm
More4

The strand, which showcases the best of international feature documentaries, makes a much appreciated return to a UK production with Sarah Feltes's film which looks at the untapped artistic resources of the human brain.

In Painting the Mind we met two men who share an obsession: neither of them can stop making art. This is not because they are driven or ambitious, but because they're brain damaged. Tommy McHugh is a Scouse builder with a criminal past, then one morning he was poleaxed by two strokes. Jon Sarkin, a chiropractor from Massachusetts, suffered with a noise like a fire alarm going off between his ears for a year, until an operation to put it right caused a stroke, necessitating the removal of half his cerebellum.

Both were confused, impaired and depressed. But they also became "disinhibited" and seized by a compulsion to draw. McHugh could only do stick men at first, but his work eventually became quite accomplished. Sarkin is now a professional artist, with a dealer and everything.

What made this programme so fascinating was not just the questions it raised about where the creative impulse lies, but the way it illuminated the very purpose of art, especially the needs it satisfies in the artist. Sarkin is clear about why he does it: "My art is an agreement between my compulsions and obsessions and I."



=== File Information ===
File Name: True Stories - Painting The Mind.avi
Duration: 00:47:49 (71,727 fr)
File Size: 399 MB (or 409,566 KB or 419,395,584 bytes) bytes

=== Video Information ===
Video Codec Name: XviD
Video Bitrate: 1031 kb/s
Bits / Pixel: 0.188 bits/pixel
Resolution: 624x352 (1.77:1) [=39:22]
Frames Per Second: 25.000 fps

=== Audio Information ===
Audio Codec: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3
Audio Bitrate: 130 kb/s (65/ch, stereo) VBR LAME3.90



===============================

Some of the other rather spiffing shows available now and always if you signup free @ www.TheBox.bz:

Comedy: The Office, Peep Show, Coupling, Chef, Fawlty Towers, Only Fools and Horses, The IT Crowd, Brass Eye, Nathan Barley, Young Ones, Monty Python, Blackadder, Alan Partridge, Father Ted, Coupling, Little Britain, Mr Bean, Extras, Green Wing, Mighty Boosh

Drama: Casualty, Holby City, The Bill, Hustle, Skins, Shameless, Ashes To Ashes

Entertainment: Faking It, Derren Brown, Scrapheap Challenge, Strictly Come Dancing, Wife Swap

Game/Quiz Shows: Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Have I Got News For You, Deal Or No Deal (UK), Q.I.

Education/Documentary: Planet Earth, Horizon, Panorama, Mark Thomas (Comedy) Product

Food: Hell's Kitchen, Jamie Oliver, The F Word, Kitchen Nightmares, Masterchef, Great British Menu, Gordon Ramsay's Cookalong

Home/Property/Garden: Property Ladder, How Clean Is Your House?, Changing Rooms, Grand Designs, Homes Under The Hammer, To Buy Or Not To Buy

Motoring: Top Gear, Fifth Gear

Music: Top Of The Pops, Jools Holland, Glastonbury

Reality: Big Brother, Celebrity Big Brother, I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!, Any Dream Will Do, Grease, Pop Idol, Wife Swap, X Factor, Badger Or Bust, Apprentice UK, Dragons' Den, Britain's Got Talent

Sci-Fi: Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, Torchwood, Primeval

Sport: Football (Soccer), Cricket, Rugby, Snooker, Darts, Formula One (F1GP)

Soaps: Eastenders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Neighbours, Hollyoaks

Style/Fashion: What Not To Wear, Project Catwalk

Kids: Teletubbies, Blue Peter, Tikkabilla, Andy Pandy, Postman Pat, Shoebox Zoo, Brum, Bob The Builder, Young Dracula, Sarah Jane Adventures, Shaun The Sheep

related torrents

comments (0)