The Stimming Pool
The Stimming Pool is an experimental – at times fantastical – hybrid feature film, co-created by a collective of autistic artists The Neurocultures Collective and filmmaker Steven Eastwood, who invite you into a neurodiverse world within the undulating logic of neurotypical environments. Where before in any cinema concerning autism, autistic people are the subjects, here they are the drivers of the entire production and as a result we are taken on a visceral journey through the world as experienced – literally and metaphorically, consciously and subconsciously – by them.
Read our interview with one of the creators of the film:
https://www.verzio.org/en/interview-with-georgia-kumari-bradburn-co-creator-of-the-stimming-pool
Sam Chown Ahern, graduate of Wimbledon School of Art, is a visual artist working with drawing, illustration, bookworks, photography and sound. Recent group shows include Barbican Young Visual Arts 2020. Chown has been an active member of the Autism Youth Council and co-presented the CH4 documentary Are You Autistic? (2018).
Georgia Kumari Bradburn is a short filmmaker and a Film student at Queen Mary University of London. Bradburn’s work focuses on metamorphosis and transformation, and how we can think of an embodied autistic phenomenology of cinema.
Benjamin Brown is a film programmer/curator and a writer. His creative practice involves drawing, video, and photography. Ben has a BA degree in filmmaking from Lancaster University and an MSc in Film Programming from Edinburgh. He runs a film club called Citizen Autistic. Ben's particular focus is on sensory ethnography, sleep, abandoned civic spaces, and stimming.
Robin Elliot-Knowles is an associate artist of the Project Artworks collective. Knowles graduated summer 2021 from a Fine Art Degree in Sussex. His art practice largely involves painting, drawing, and creating graphic-novel like illustrations, all considering key themes of intersectionality, colonialism and post-colonialism, and transgender. Robin is also the curator of the B-Movie Fan Club, sharing lost/cult horror films with a dedicated audience.
Lucy Walker is a member of the Project Artworks Collective. She has an established practice working with textiles, costume, model and puppet making, drawing, and small set building. She works with a number of alter egos, some of which she uses to create performative gallery interventions. Her work often involves re-scripting and expanding the worlds of popular culture TV characters and storylines.
Steven Eastwood is an award-winning artist filmmaker. His recent films and moving image artworks include Island (2018), the Interval and the Instant (2017) and Buried Land (2010).
