The Stimming Pool

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The Stimming Pool

The Stimming Pool

United Kingdom 2024 Documentary cor 67 min.

In film, people with different brains are rarely in charge, though they are often characters. Co-created by the Neurocultures Collective (Sam Chown Ahern, Georgia Bradburn, Benjamin Brown, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy Walker) and artist-filmmaker Steven Eastwood, the film is an experimental hybrid whose drifting form is built around the concept of an autistic camera. The curiosity of this camera 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 a respite from them. All have a shared objective: to find a place where they are free to move and stim —common repetitive behaviors of Autism Spectrum Disorder performed as a means of calming down, concentrating or for pleasure—, uninhibited by the tests and restrictions of normative society.

Presented at the CPH:DOX.

United Kingdom documentary neurodiversity experimental international film festivals

direction

The Neurocultures Collective, Steven Eastwood

cinematography

Gregory Oke

editing

Sergio Veja Borrego

sound design

Brain Audio

music

Tom Haines

production design

Nicola Jones

cast

Dre Spisto, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Sam Chown Ahern

production

Chloe White

co-production

Steven Eastwood

produced by

Whalebone Films

world sales

Indox Films

contact

[email protected]

indicative rating

14