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The Stimming Pool

Synopsis

Co-created by the a group autistic directors, the Neurocultures Collective, (Sam Chown-Ahern, Georgia Bradburn, Benjamin Brown, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy Walker) and artist-filmmaker Steven Eastwood, THE STIMMING POOL is a hybrid film that enters the possibilities of a world informed by neurodiverse perspectives. The film reflects a spectrum of autistic experience, and it’s drifting form is built around the concept of an autistic camera, whose curiosity discovers a relay of subjects who stray through the world, revealing environments often hostile to autistic experience - such as a hectic workplace and a crowded pub - and quiet spaces that offer respite from them. Each character exists in an apparently separate world. Some are concealing being autistic and dealing with feelings of isolation, others thrive in the communities around them. But gradually we come to realise they have a shared objective: to find a place uninhibited by the tests and restrictions of normative society: this is the Stimming Pool.
Official selection CPH:DOX 2024 Special Premieres - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024
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Details

Year
2024
Type of project
Features
Running time
67 min
Format
16mm (converted to digital)
Director
The Neurocultures Collective (Sam Chown Ahern, Georgia Bradburn, Benjamin Brown, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy Walker), Steven Eastwood 1st Feature
Producer
Steven Eastwood, Chloe White
Executive Producer
Project Artworks, Brian Hill
Editor
Sergio Vego Borrego
Director of Photography
Gregory Oke
Production Designer
Nicole Jones
Sound
Steve Bond, Carlos Eligio San Juan Juanchi
Composer
Brain Audio, Tom Haines

Genre

Experimental Disabilities

Categories

Documentary

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Whalebone Films

1 Crown Lane
Hastings
TN34 3DJ

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