Planet City costumes

2020
Recycled textile materials

Director and Production Designer Liam Young with Costume Director/Producer Ane Crabtree, VFX supervisor Alexey Marfin, Still photography by Driely S and original score by Forest Swords and EMEL

Drone Shepherd and Bot Herder Mask Artist Liam Young

Zero Waste Weavers Costume Artists Holly McQuillian, Karin Peterson, Kathryn Walters

https://liamyoung.org/project/planet-city

DRONE SHEPERD

 

HIGH ALTITUDE BOT HERDER

 

ZERO WASTE WEAVERS

Following centuries of colonisation, globalisation and never-ending economic extraction we have remade the world from the scale of the cell to the tectonic plate. But what if we radically reversed this planetary sprawl? What if we reached a global consensus to retreat from our vast network of cities and entangled supply chains into one hyper-dense metropolis housing the entire population of the earth?

Planet City is directed and Production Designed by Liam Young with Costume Director/Producer Ane Crabtree, VFX supervisor Alexey Marfin, still photography by Driely S and original score by Forest Swords and EMEL. The project explores the productive potential of extreme densification, where 10 billion people surrender the rest of the planet to a global wilderness and the return of stolen lands.

Although wildly provocative, Planet City eschews the techno-utopian fantasy of designing a new world order. This is not a neo-colonial masterplan to be imposed from a singular seat of power. It is a work of critical architecture – a speculative fiction grounded in statistical analysis, research and traditional knowledge. It is a collaborative work of multiple voices and cultures supported by an international team of acclaimed environmental scientists, theorists and advisors. In Planet City we see that climate change is no longer a technological problem, but rather an ideological one, rooted in culture and politics.

This is a fiction shaped like a city. Simultaneously an extraordinary image of tomorrow and an urgent examination of the environmental questions facing us today.

Humans dominate the planet. As a consequence of hundreds of years of colonisation, globalisation and never-ending economic extraction and expansionism we have remade the world from the scale of the cell to the tectonic plate. But what if we radically reversed this planetary sprawl? What if we reached a global consensus to retreat from our vast network of cities and entangled supply chains into one hyper-dense metropolis housing the entire population of the earth? Planet City, by Los Angeles-based film director and architect Liam Young, explores the productive potential of extreme densification, where 10 billion people surrender the rest of the planet to a global wilderness. Although wildly provocative, Planet City eschews the techno-utopian fantasy of designing a new world order. This is not a neo-colonial masterplan to be imposed from a singular seat of power. It is a work of critical architecture – a speculative fiction grounded in statistical analysis, research and traditional knowledge. It is a collaborative work of multiple voices and cultures supported by an international team of acclaimed environmental scientists, theorists and advisors. In Planet City we see that climate change is no longer a technological problem, but rather an ideological one, rooted in culture and politics. Planet City is simultaneously an extraordinary image of tomorrow and an urgent examination of the environmental questions facing us today. Designer and Director Liam Young Commissioned by NGV Melbourne & Ewan McEoin Visual Effects Supervisor Alexey Marfin Visual Effects Case Miller, Aman Sheth, Vivian Komati, Yucong Wang Original Score Forest Swords (Matthew Barnes) Vocals EMEL Lead Researcher Case Miller Researcher Pierce Myers Narrative Consultant Jennifer Chen Performers David Freeland Jr, AJ and Miguel Alejandro Lopez, Joy Brown of Jacob Jonas The Company Costume Director/Producer Ane Crabtree Main Costume Assistant Courtney Mitchell Costume Assistant Ela Erdogan Costume Artists Holly McQuillian (Zero Waste Weavers), Aneesa Shami (High Altitude Bot Herder), Yeohlee Teng (Code Talker), Courtney Mitchell (Beekeeper), Ane Crabtree (Nomadic Worker, Algae Diver, Drone Shepard) Fiber Artist Janice Arnold Mask Artists Liam Young (High Altitude Bot Herder, Code Talker, Algae Diver, Drone Shepard), Zac Monday (Zero Waste Weaver)

Director Liam Young
Production Design Liam Young

Visual Effects Supervisor Alexey Marfin

Costume Director/Producer Ane Crabtree
Original Score Forest Swords Vocals EMEL

Visual Effects Case Miller, Aman Sheth, Vivian Komati, Yucong Wang
Lead Researcher Case Miller
Researcher Pierce Myers

Narrative Consultant Jennifer Chen
West Coast Costume Assistant Courtney Mitchell
East Coast Costume Assistant Ela Erdogan
Costume Artists Holly McQuillian, Karin Peterson, Kathryn Walters (Zero Waste Weavers), Aneesa Shami (High Altitude Bot Herder), Yeohlee Teng (Code Talker), Courtney Mitchell (Beekeeper), Ane Crabtree (Nomadic Worker, Algae Diver, Drone Shepard)
Fibre Artist Janice Arnold
Mask Artists Liam Young (High Altitude Bot Herder, Code Talker, Algae Diver, Drone Shepard), Zac Monday (Zero Waste Weavers), Aneesa Shami (Zero Waste Weavers)

Costume Still Photography Driely S
Costume stills Photoshoot Produced by Eva Huang

Performed by David Freeland Jr, AJ and Miguel Alejandro Lopez, Joy Brown of Jacob Jonas The Company

Commissioned by NGV Melbourne

Curator Ewan McEoin