For the TED conference this year, we wanted to entertain attendees between talks — and support and encourage up-and-coming filmmakers. Meet TEDFilms, a new program for promoting the creation of original short films.
Executive-produced by Sinéad McDevitt and led up by TED’s director of Production and Video Operations, Mina Sabet, the short films acted as a creative palate-cleanser during the speaker program, a short blast of humor, beauty and awe.
Each film is less than two minutes, and genres range from experimental art and documentary to PSA and dark comedy. Enjoy!
Chromatic
As light passes through defective glass, beams split into color spectra, causing ‘diffraction grating’. For the first time ever in film, we get up close and personal with this visual phenomenon in a series of beautiful chromatic abstractions.
Director: Shane Griffin
Music: Gavin Little
With special thanks to:
Ed Bruce at Screenscene
Los York
Illusions for a Better Society
Could visual illusions be a cure for polarization?
Co-Directors:
Aaron Duffy
Lake Buckley
Jack Foster
Director of Photography: William Atherton
Production Design: Adam Pruitt
Creative Partner: SpecialGuest
Production Company: 1stAveMachine
Producers:
Dave Kornfield
Andrew Geller
Matt Snetzko
Music: Bryn Bliska
It’s Not Amazing Enough
The pressures of having to make an amazing film sent this deadpan deep-voiced award winning filmmaker into a crippling spiral of self-doubt and comic indecision.
Director, Writer & Producer: Duncan Cowles
Music:Stillhead
A.I. Therapy
After 100 years of progress, AI bots have finally become too human for their own good.
Mother London
Directors: Emerald Fennell & Chris Vernon
Director of Photography: Ben Kracun
Production Design: Jessica Sutton
VFX: Coffee & TV