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TEDxSydney 2015: The short films

Each year thousands of people descend on the Sydney Opera House for TedxSydney. The 2015 event, held yesterday, saw film makers and ad agencies create videos on topics from child literacy, to disability, society’s obsession with consumer goods to more artistic films on the environment and water. 

Here are this year’s TedxSydney videos: 

1. Projections in the Forest – Tarek Mawed and Friedrich van Shoor

A projector is brought into the forest to reveal a glowing wonderland. Using trees, bushes, plants and creatures, the duo brings the forest to life with faux-bioluminescence.

2. Woven Threads – Michi Marosszeky and Paul Sullivan

Our shared human condition is the inspiration for Woven Threads. Through humour, delightful animations and simple story telling, the film places the asylum seeker or refugee into a circumstance with which we can identify.

3. We Never Learn – Ian Shying

A contemporary fable that seeks to reveal the inevitable repercussions of humanity’s inability to learn from its mistakes. Created using a combination of live action, animation, illustration and photographic collage.

4. How to Fall in Love with a Stranger – Melanie Horkan and Sinead McDevitt

Inspired by the 1990s experiment by Dr Aron, which used 36 questions and a 4-minute stare to make complete strangers fall in love. The film takes seven Sydney couples and puts the experiment to the test. Live action and animation.

5. Archaics Anonymous – Stephan Renard and Team

A stop motion animation featuring a self-help group for obsolescent inanimate objects including VHS, Betamax, C90 tapes and Vinyl among others. This is a light-hearted look at the eternal tension between the changing of the old and the new guards.

6. The Cancer Curing Pole Dancer – Jamie Andrei

Chinese Australian PhD student seeking a cure for cancer has a quarter life crisis and takes up pole dancing.

7. The luxury Cave with the Million Dollar Views – Jamie Andrei

Deep in the Blue Mountains, a man uses old convict tools to carve a beautifully intricate and magical cave reminiscent of Gaudi’s creations.

8. Vanessa Vanuatu – Kasimir Burgess

A day in the life of Vanessa, a young wheelchair bound girl who has the hope of one day teaching children with disabilities.

9. BMF – Pool 

“Knowledge is a beautiful thing. But some things you just don’t want to know.”

10. Sound Advice – Paper Moose (previous TVB contributors)

A montage of different people giving advice about their various trades, teaching people how to do things. However, the advice will often be absurd and irreverent.

11. By The Book – Imagination

A short cinematic essay about the beauty of the book.

You can see TedxSydney video wraps from previous years below:

TedxSydney 2014 video wrap

TedxSydney 2013 video wrap 

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