Sheffield DocFest
Venues:
Persistence Works
21 Brown Street, S1 2BS
Opening times:
10 — 15 Jun 2026
10.00 — 18.00
Exhibition Opening:
Tue 09 Mar, 17.00 — 20.00
Everyone welcome
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Sheffield DocFest’s Alternate Realities exhibition explores the documentary and storytelling possibilities of gaming multi-worlds and features exciting works created in video games.
The centrepiece of the exhibition is Sheffield of Stories by Adam Clarke, created in partnership with The National Videogame Museum. This work allows visitors to explore a fictionalised version of Sheffield, created in Minecraft during family workshops at NVM.
It also showcases examples of some of the most innovative approaches to storytelling within the gaming space.
Featured works
Sheffield of Stories (2026) by Adam Clarke & the National Video Game Museum. Explore a fictional portrait of Sheffield and hear young people’s memories and dreams of the city.
Run time: 30m
Coded Black (2025) by Human Studio & Dr. Maisha Webster. Moving through a plantation and a modern city, this single-player story explores the history of anti-Blackness in the USA and UK.
Run time: 15m
Elsewhere in India (2026) by Antariksha Studio and Crossover Labs, in partnership with BFI National Archive. What happens when colonial-era archives meet generative AI, video games and Indofuturist imagination?
Run time: 15m