Artist recycles plastic waste into colourful artworks:
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(31 Dec 2015) SOUTH AFRICA PLASTIC ART
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Johannesburg, South Africa – 2 December 2015
1. Close of heat gun melting plastic onto plastic canvas
2. Wide of plastic artist Mbongeni Buthelezi working on plastic art piece in studio
3. Mid of Buthelezi talking next to blank canvas made from plastic roof sheeting
4. Close pan right of blank canvas made from plastic roof sheeting
5. SOUNDBITE (Zulu) Mbongeni Buthelezi, Artist:
“The way I do my work is that I collect plastics, recycled plastics, from retail shops, garages and so on. I bring them back into my studio here where we are. This is the process of producing this art. I stretch white roofing plastic over a wooden frame. On top of that I start building up with different colours to create or to build up the image. For someone who has never seen my work, the easiest way to describe it is that it is like collage. I use different layers to create an image.”
6. Pan right of Buthelezi arriving at city garage
7. Mid of Buthelezi and Robert Mungulwa, Garage Worker, looking for plastic waste
8. Tilt down of plastic waste being put into plastic bag
9. Pan right of plastic waste in garage
10. Wide of Buthelezi and Mungulwa collecting plastic waste
11. SOUNDBITE (Zulu) Robert Mungulwa, Garage Worker:
“When Mbongeni doesn’t come, the waste builds up here. We’re grateful for him taking this rubbish away. There are others who also come here to collect the garage waste. It makes life a bit easier.”
12. Wide of Buthelezi leaving garage
13. Wide of Buthelezi arriving at his studio
14. Wide of Buthelezi walking through studio with art on walls
15. Tilt down of Buthelezi dumping plastic waste in studio
16. Pan right of Buthelezi walking to his plastic canvas
17. Mid of Buthelezi tearing off strips of plastic
18. Close of Buthelezi melting plastic onto plastic canvas
19. Wide of Johannesburg Art Gallery exterior
20. Setup shot of Musha Neluheni, Art Curator of Contemporary Collections, walking through Johannesburg Art Gallery
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Musha Neluheni, Art Curator of Contemporary Collections, Johannesburg Art Gallery:
“They do become almost like oil paintings because he melts them down to a point where they’re very malleable and you can really do almost anything with it. He’s quite specific in the choice of what plastics he uses, because things melt at different temperatures and if you look at his more abstract work that’s when you really see a connection to works like oil paintings by abstract expressionists.”
22. Wide of Buthelezi at work in his studio
23. Low shot of Buthelezi with plastic waste in foreground
24. Pan right form Buthelezi to his plastic art being created by melting plastic onto plastic canvas with heat gun
25. SOUNDBITE (Zulu) Mbongeni Buthelezi, Artist:
“The painting behind me is a work that was inspired by two boys that I saw pushing this wire car along the street in Soweto. I wanted to do a small drawing, but I couldn’t because I was fast losing the action. So I just pulled out my cellphone, took this picture, brought it back into my studio and started working on it. I liked the movement in both the boys. They looked happy, children enjoying themselves.”
26. Close of plastic being melted onto plastic canvas
27. Wide of Buthelezi at work
28. Tilt down of Da Vinci Hotel, Johannesburg exterior
29. Wide of ‘MB Studio Community’ art gallery inside Da Vinci Hotel
30. Tilt up of black and white plastic art piece by Buthelezi
31. SOUNDBITE (English) Sarah McGee, Gallery Co-Owner:
32. Wide of South African Breweries Head Office exterior
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