Welcome to a different kind of sci-fi experience! Journey through six possible future worlds and engage with films, audio stories, soundscapes, installations, projections, costumes, furnishings, film miniatures and meditative artefacts. This is it In other worldsan immersive experience created by designer, director and producer Liam Young (Planet City), in collaboration with leading voices from film, television, literature and science.
It is hosted at London’s Barbican Centre, and features famous voices such as Diego Luna (Rogue one, Andor), Jeffrey Wright (American fantasy, Casino Royale), Dennis Goff (Andor), Richard Ayoade (Phoenician plan, IT crowd), Maxine Peake (I swear, shameless), Adam Young (The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power), Finnish actress Alma Puesti (Fallen leaves) and Australian actress Natasha Wanganeen (Rabbit proof fencing).
The immersive exhibition invites you to explore “the imagined future of our planet, rooted in real technology and climate-based possibilities.”
Young and his collaborators offer a slice of Hollywood through stories, famous voices and writers, including Lisa Joy (Western world, He falls), and costumes by Anne Crabtree (The Handmaid’s Tale, The soprano, Western world), among others. But the immersive experience also wants to go beyond traditional sci-fi shows.
“Our relationship with the future is always shaped by imaginary worlds,” Young said during a press tour. In other worldswhich runs until September 6. “It’s an extraordinary common language.” However, “one of the great tragedies of the Hollywood machine is that we often miss that opportunity…to find deep emotional connections with ideas through these media, rather than just creating a backdrop for some superhero moment.”
Description In other worlds As “an attempt to create a set of visions for a hopeful future, but also to bring the general public into direct conversation with some of these ideas about how to live in the future,” in effect, “creating an entry point for conversation about what the future could be and creating a shared conversation.”
Young explained that people going through this immersive experience will be able to see, hear and interact with different possible future worlds, each based on a movie, developed by Young’s studio in Los Angeles and “an amazing group of visual effects artists, who, when they’re not working on these kind of projects, are working on Hollywood movies and Marvel movies.” “So we’re kind of trying to co-opt that Hollywood machine of telling different kinds of stories, and then pulling costumes and props and stuff and miniature movie models from those movies that go into making the movie.”
Young is fascinated and interested in the history of the worlds of science fiction and model making, from the book of Fritz Lang Metropolis To Ridley Scott Blade Runnerpartner. “The unsung heroes of worldbuilding were, in many ways, model makers,” he said. “What we did with these worlds was also to invite an amazing group of collaborators and writers from film and television, musicians and poets, scientists and technologists, to inhabit each of these worlds and tell their own stories to find their own characters and take their own positions in these spaces.”
For visitors In other worldsYoung hopes to provide inspiration for ways to confront the challenges of our world. Ultimately, the creator says: “The crises we face are no longer crises of technology, but crises of imagination.”
