“Views of Planet City” is a hybrid documentary that captures the depth of a speculative exhibition envisioning a radically sustainable future. Filmed across two Los Angeles galleries as part of Getty’s PST ART initiative, the project brings together artists Liam Young, Jennifer Chen, John Cooper, Damjan Jovanovic, and Angelica Lorenzi in response to Young’s visionary worldbuilding project "Planet City" - a future in which all ten billion humans live in a single, hyper-dense city, allowing the rest of the Earth to rewild.

Through richly composed footage of the exhibition and in-depth interviews with the participating artists, along with exhibition organizer Namik Mackic, exhibition designer Adam Bandler of Oficina.la, and writer, filmmaker, and strategist Samantha Culp, the film reveals the conceptual, spatial, and ideological scaffolding of "Planet City." The exhibition spans fiction and documentary, video games and models, textiles and performances, forming a planetary imaginary rooted not in speculative fantasy but in the ecological, technological, and cultural urgencies of the present.

“Views of Planet City” is not a story of climate change as a purely technical challenge, but as a cultural and political reckoning. It asks what kinds of collective imagination, systemic rethinking, and aesthetic strategies are needed to confront global warming at its most daunting scale. The film offers a counterimage to outdated environmental narratives, presenting a conceptual blueprint shaped by architecture, cinema, collaboration, and radical optimism.

Crew Credits –

Production:
SCI-Arc Channel Creator and Executive Producer - Hernán Díaz Alonso
SCI-Arc Channel Executive Producer - Reza Monahan
SCI-Arc Channel Creative Director - William Virgil
Director - Reza Monahan
Director of Photography - H. Walker Sayen
B Camera / Drone Operator - Carlos Bonachea
C Cameras - Lacie Armstrong / Steven Gonzalez
Swing Techs - Sam Hinsvark / Oliver Schaffer
Sound Engineer - Chris Trueman

Post-Production:
Story Producer - Caroline Post
Editors - Walker Sayen/Reza Monahan

Additional Images and Video Provided by the Artists.

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