The process a strand of DNA goes through to wrap its two-metre length into a molecule that can fit into a human cell nucleus is hard to visualise. Enter Drew Berry.

As a biomedical animator, Mr Berry, a trained cell biologist, has spent the past 15 years creating movies on life inside human cells.

From the replication of DNA and cell death to the life cycle of the malaria parasite, Mr Berry has created cinematic masterpieces on some of the body's most complex inner workings.

Mr Berry, who is based at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, is in Sydney to talk about the convergence of science and art, with his medical illustrator colleague Graham Johnson, from University of California, San Francisco, at the Museum of Contemporary Art for Vivid Sydney on Thursday.