Co-opting the “Hollywood Machine to Tell Different Kinds of Stories”: Liam Young on His Immersive Experience ‘In Other Worlds’

Welcome to a different kind of science fiction experience! Embark on a journey through six possible future worlds and engage with films, audio stories and soundscapes, installations and projections, costumes and tapestries, movie miniatures and speculative artefacts. This is In Other Worlds, an immersive experience created by designer, director, and producer Liam Young (Planet City), in collaboration with leading voices from film, TV, literature and science.

Hosted at London’s Barbican Centre, it features such famous voices as Diego Luna (Rogue One, Andor), Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction, Casino Royale), Denise Gough (Andor), Richard Ayoade (The Phoenician Scheme, The IT Crowd), Maxine Peake (I Swear, Shameless), Adam Young (Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power), Finnish actress Alma Pöysti (Fallen Leaves) and Australian actress Natasha Wanganeen (Rabbit Proof Fence).

The immersive exhibition invites you to explore “imagined futures for our planet, rooted in real technology and climate-based possibilities.”

Young and his collaborators offer a slice of Hollywood through the stories, the famous voices and writers, including Lisa Joy (Westworld, Fallout), and costumes by Ane Crabtree (The Handmaid’s Tale, The Sopranos, Westworld), among other things. But the immersive experience also wants to go beyond the traditional sci-fi offering.