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 reflect 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
https://whalebonefilms.com/the-stimming-pool/
Details
- Year
- 2024
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 67 min
- Format
- 16mm (converted to digital)
- Director
- Sam Chown Ahern, Georgia Bradburn, Benjamin Brown, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy Walker, Steven Eastwood 1st Feature
- Producer
- Chloe White, Steven Eastwood
- Executive Producer
- Project Artworks, Brian Hill
- Editor
- Sergio Vego Borrego
- Director of Photography
- Gregory Oke
- Production Designer
- Nicole Jones
- Sound
- Julia Martin
- Music
- Brain Audio
- Principal Cast
- Andrea Spisto
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 23rd January 2024
