the stimming pool

“The curious and complex meta-documenary that the filmmaking team has created is an incredibly powerful way to convey the joy of being who you are” EKKO Film

“An engaging and illuminating hybrid documentary that reflects a spectrum of autistic experiences” Business Doc Europe

The Neurocultures Collective:

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. One such alter ego is Lister Cat, riffing on the character Lister in Red Dwarf.

Robin Knowles is an associate artist of the Project Artworks collective. Robin 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, a monthly screening at Hastings Electric Palace cinema running for more than 10 years, sharing lost/cult horror films with a dedicated audience.

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.

Sam Chown Ahern is a visual artist working with drawing, illustration, bookworks, photography and sound. Sam is a graduate of Wimbledon School of Art. Recent group shows include Barbican Young Visual Arts 2020. Sam has been an active member of the Autism Youth Council and co-presented the CH4 documentary 'Are You Autistic?'

Georgia Kumari Bradburn is a short filmmaker and a Film student at Queen Mary University of London. Georgia's work focuses on metamorphosis and transformation, and how we can think of an embodied autistic phenomenology of cinema.

Steven Eastwood is an artist-filmmaker. His second feature film ISLAND (2018) had its international premiere at the Rotterdam Film Festival 2018 and had a theatrical release in the UK later that year. The sister artwork The Interval and the Instant (2017) is a multiscreen video installation commissioned by Fabrica. His first feature Buried Land (2010) was officially selected for Tribeca, Moscow, Mumbai, Goteborg film festivals 2010. Eastwood’s work is often concerned with ethics, belief, mental health and physical disability. His documentary Those Who Are Jesus was nominated for a Grierson Award. Eastwood has screened and exhibited internationally. He has published widely and is Professor of Film Practice at Queen Mary University London, where he is Head of Film Practice. His current projects are concerned with Neurodiversity (Autism through Cinema, funded by Wellcome Trust), and co-creation methodologies. He lives and works in London.

2024

CPH:DOX - Special Premieres (World Premiere)

DOXA - Special Mention / Doc Award Competition (North American Premiere)

Sydney FF - Screenability Strand (Australia Premiere)

IceDocs - Joint Winner / Main Competition

Melbourne IFF

Camden IFF - Cinematic Vision Competition (US Premiere)

BFI London FF (UK Premiere)

Folkestone Documentary Festival

Year: 2024

Country: UK

Length: 67 mins

World Premiere: CPH:DOX 2024

Director: The Neurocultures Collective (Sam Chown Ahern, Georgia Bradburn, Benjamin Brown, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy Walker) and Steven Eastwood.

Producer: Chloe White (Whalebone Films), Steven Eastwood

Cinematographer: Gregory Oke

Editor: Sergio Vego Borrego

Music: Thomas Haines

Sound Design: Steve Bond, Carlos San Juan