Planet City: Live
Synopsis
In a world of escalating climate crises, bold dreams aren’t optional—they’re essential. What if, instead of unchecked expansion and environmental destruction, we radically reversed our course? What if the entire global population lived in one hyper-dense city, leaving the rest of the planet to rewild?
Presented in partnership with Vivid Sydney and accompanied by a live performance of its haunting Forest Swords score, this boundary-pushing event presents a breathtaking image of a radical new world order. Join us for this revelatory and urgent examination of our choices, our impact and the possibilities still within our grasp.
This event is presented in partnership with Vivid Sydney and City Recital Hall.
Tickets available through City Recital Hall website. Click below to be redirected.
Special Guests
Forest Swords is an electronic producer and artist Matthew Barnes, based in Liverpool, UK. Barnes is known for rewiring sounds into innovative electronic worlds, most recently on his acclaimed second album ‘Compassion’ (Ninja Tune), remixes for Bjork, Massive Attack and Neneh Cherry, and curation of a release as part of the the DJ-Kicks compilation series.
Liam Young is a designer, director, and BAFTA-nominated producer working at the intersection of fiction, design, and future thinking. Described by the BBC as “the man designing our futures,” his visionary films explore urgent environmental questions. His work has premiered on Apple+, Channel 4, SXSW, Tribeca, and the Venice Biennale and is held in collections at the New York Met, Victoria & Albert Museum, and Art Institute of Chicago.
Tickets
Sydney Film festival acknowledges Australia’s First Nations People as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land, and pay respect to the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, upon whose Country SFF is based.
We honour the storytelling and culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia.
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