Future Worlds: Green Screen Youth Films + 16mm Shorts

This screening took place on Friday, June 5, 2026 at 5:00 pmYukon Theatre

In your wildest imagination, what future worlds can you dream up? What worlds do you wish for and what kinds of futures do you worry about? What sort of people, landscapes, creatures, and things might be found there? What relationships and laws of nature make up these possible realities?

At the Available Light Film Festival in February, youth participents ranging from ages 10 to 15, worked in small groups to create imaginary worlds set in the future. They worked together improvisationally, using performance, green-screen video, visual art and sound-making. By the end of boths days, each group produced a green-screen performance, a handmade world for their performance (created with coloured pencils, markers, crayon, collage materials), and an audio-collage or musical piece. At the end of the workshop, each group explained to facilitators how they imagined that these elements would go together.

These are the films that were created during those workshops!

This workshop series was part of the SSHRC funded Pluriversal Worlding with Extended Reality project, jointly led by Mary Bunch and Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning. This project used media arts to explore the decolonial concept that the world is composed of many worlds, that worldviews create reality, and that all existence is interrelated.
Mary Bunch is an Associate Professor in Cinema and Media Arts at York University, and Canada Research Chair in Critical Media Arts Ecologies. Her research develops socio-political concepts through critical theory and media arts creation, informed by decolonizing, critical disability and queer frameworks. She has published articles in such journals as Psicanálise, Gênero, Fronteiras, Culture, Theory and Critique, the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Public, and Feminist Theory. Her SSHRC funded project Pluriversal Worlding with Extended Reality, develops a methodology of transition worldmaking that engages ‘world’ as a frame of reality, as well as being a narrative and aesthetic element of media arts works.
Thank you to SPYA for allowing us to use their space!