Pacific Standard Universe
Pacific Standard Universe is a new film by Griffith Observatory and a program of PST ART, the Getty’s landmark regional event exploring the intersections of art and science, with additional support from Griffith Observatory Foundation. The film is about the way people used art to explain the cosmos for thousands of years until the modern universe was discovered in southern California.
Griffith Observatory and Griffith Observatory Foundation are pleased to present Pacific Standard Universe, an original, 35-minute, animated film produced by key members of the team that created Signs of Life. The film is the Observatory’s contribution to Getty’s multi-institutional regional art event, “Pacific Standard Time: Art & Science Collide.”
Starting in mid-September, the film will screen multiple times each day for free in the Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon theater. Seating for Pacific Standard Universe is provided on a walk-in, first-come/first-served basis.
There are no shows currently scheduled.
Portraying the Universe
Throughout history, we have looked at the sky to understand the universe and our place in it. For thousands of years, across the globe, people made images to explain how the cosmos works. These ancient symbols of time and space from around the world did work until discoveries a century ago, right here in southern California, turned the universe into something completely different. The film is about of a collision of art and science that changed forever our cosmic perspective. It’s a story no one has heard or told before. After Mount Wilson Observatory, overlooking Los Angeles, discovered a new standard universe—an expanding, evolving, unimaginably vast, and unfathomably old universe—new pictures were needed, and science, space exploration, and Hollywood delivered.
PST ART: Art & Science Collide
PST ART (previously Pacific Standard Time), southern California’s landmark arts event, returns in September 2024 with more than 818 artists, 50 exhibitions, and 1 mind-blowing theme: Art & Science Collide. This “collision” will explore the intersections of art and science, both past and present, with diverse organizations activating exhibitions on topics like ancient cosmologies, Indigenous sci-fi, environmental justice, and artificial intelligence. PST ART: Art & Science Collide will share groundbreaking research, spark lively debate, and provide thought-provoking lenses to explore our complex world. It will create opportunities for civic dialogue around some of the most urgent problems of our time by exploring past and present connections between art and science in a series of exhibitions, public programs, and other resources. PST ART, a Getty initiative in partnership with museums and institutions across the region, is one of the most expansive art events in the world. Whether you are already in-the-know or discovering PST ART for the first time, Art & Science Collide will be the groundbreaking event of 2024.
Pacific Standard Universe
| A project of PST ART with additional support from Griffith Observatory Foundation | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Bob Niemack |
| Chris Shelton | |
| Written by | Dr. E.C. Krupp |
| Bob Niemack | |
| Chris Shelton | |
| Produced by | Bob Niemack |
| Gee Yeung | |
| Executive Producer | Ann Marie Bedtke |
| Griffith Observatory Foundation | |
| Story Concept | Dr. E.C. Krupp |
| Creative Director | Gee Yeung |
| Editor | Fredrick Kolouch |
| Production Coordinator | Alesha Burk |
| Assistant to Dr. Krupp | Jennifer Wong |
| Visual Effects by | RUMBLEBOX |
| Head of Talent | Dee Alter |
| Lead Animator | Daniel Fiske |
| Additional Animation | Shane Chambers |
| Liz Cox | |
| Estevan Guzman | |
| Kevin Yang | |
| Lead Rigger | |
| Daniel Fiske | |
| Senior Artists | Chris Butler |
| Shane Chambers | |
| Estevan Guzman | |
| Digital Artists | Liz Cox |
| Jin Guan | |
| Celine Leng | |
| Sofie Levin | |
| Kaley Rodriguez | |
| Megan Thong | |
| Noelle Wong | |
| Kelly Wu | |
| Kevin Yang | |
| Chumash Cultural Advisor | Rex Saint-Onge |
| Narrators | Manuel Bo Armenta |
| Koren Bertolli | |
| Dana Fabbro | |
| Armando Valdez Kennedy | |
| Christine Li | |
| Juliana Stephanie Ojeda | |
| Joe Sanfelippo | |
| Adam El-Sharkawi | |
| Inger Tudor | |
| Original Music by | Frederick Kolouch |
| Music Contributors | Rex Saint Onge |
| Manuel Bo Armenta | |
| David Loving | |
| Sound Mix | Michael Keeley |
| Director of Information Technology | Benjamin Roudenis |
| Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope Images | NASA |
| Special Thanks | Sarah VanderWood |
| Leonard Nimoy and Susan Bay-Nimoy | |
| Sponsored by | The Getty Foundation |
| Griffith Observatory Foundation | |