Ricky’s decides to get in shape and makes art including Fruit Pom Poms and a Salad Face Place Mat. Ricky tries to sign up for some ninja fitness classes but ends up making some revolutionary art and facing a bit of a high jump!
Subjects: Art and Design
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Day of the Spider
Gavin brings round his new pet “Spider” and Ricky is terrified. After making butterfly art inspired by Damien Hirst and weaving a Ninja Rug, Ricky has to run for his life when “Spider” escapes. In the woods Ricky makes a sculpture only with items he finds on the forest floor to try and overcome his fear!
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Day of the Diamond
Something sparkly and expensive is accidentally delivered to the flat and Ricky thinks a scary man now wants it back. Ricky makes a photogram inspired by Man Ray, a Piggy Bank Robber, and a very precious and extremely cool ice sculpture.
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Day of the Trash
Ricky is tidying up. His dad brings around a box of his old junk including a robot, which helps him to create a pointillism picture with cotton buds. His old pogo stick inspires Ricky and his friends to make a huge pogo painting.
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Street Art
To some, street art and graffiti is nothing but vandalism. But to these young artists, it is a vital form of self expression. In this eye-opening program we speak to eight members of Melbourne’s thriving street art scene. Through their stories we look at Melbourne’s street art scene and the contribution of street art and graffiti to art and society around the world. We explore the history of street art, the influences on our featured artists, and the materials and techniques they use. We also define street art and graffiti, and discuss the contentious issue of street art in art galleries.
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Making It – Volume 3
Henna Painting; Creating Bead Jewellery; Making a Wire Toy; Bush Bikes; The Red Violin; Junk Yard Band; Inma Maku; Unlock; Learning the Ropes; Digging Dirt and Doing Pannies; Making Moves; Kungkalu Palyalku; 3 Dinensions. 13 x 5 minutes.
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Making It – Volume 1
Making a Tipi; Playing at a Ceilidh; Making Pitch-Patchy Costumes; Building Robots; Making Pinhole Cameras; Tending and Allotment; Cooking Ackee and Saltfish; Tying a Fly; Designing a Dress; Herding Sheep; Firing a Rocket; Sculpting a Dog; Kiteboarding; Paint a Mural; Circus Girl. 15 x 5 minutes.
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Making It – Volume 2
Afrolata; Animation; One Day in Meto’s Life; Sand Castles; Kites; Playing the Cavaquinho; Samba School; Weave a Grass Mat; Creating Masks; Building a Tin Car; Making a Sweet Wrapper Mat; Moulding Clay Warthogs; Feeding the Butterflies. 13 x 5 minutes.
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Adele’s Wish
The remarkable story of an 84 year old Los Angeles woman’s struggle to recover five rare paintings that were stolen from her family by the Nazi’s in 1938. The artworks were painted by world renowned Austrian artist, Gustav Klimt. For nearly a decade, Maria Altmann and her lawyer, Randol Schoenberg, battle Austria for the return of these incredibly valuable paintings. Although it began as a legal dispute, the struggle quickly turned into a political, cultural and ethical confrontation. In the process, Austria was forced to re-examine not only its role in Nazi art thefts, but also its anti-Semitic past.
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Dutch Light
Dutch Light is a documentary about the light in Holland. Is it unique, as people say, or is that simply a myth? The myth goes back a long way. It’s the idea that light and observation were the cornerstones of a visual culture dating back to the 17th century. The German artist Joseph Beuys, however, says that the culture of observation came to an end in the 1950s. Dutch Light breaks new ground by exploring that myth and capturing it in images. Distinguished artists, art historians and scientists from different countries address the questions raised by Beuys’s theory. What is Dutch light? Is it different from light anywhere else in the world? Has it really had a significant impact on art and science? And is it true that it has changed or disappeared? Dutch Light is an extraordinary film about a phenomenon that is as ordinary as it is unique.