THE STIMMING POOL
Great Britain | 2024 | 67 min | col.
The “Neurocultures Project” develops the possibility of making films departing from the perception and experience of autism. We follow artist and filmmaker Steven Eastwood working with a group of five autistic artists to make a film in which documentary and fiction film are mixed with an original approach, deconstructing traditional cinematic narration’s codes and norms from within. Visual experiments, narratives, observations of the world, hybrid forms of storytelling: the result is an open-ended, fascinating, and destabilizing journey that is never obvious. Everyone takes risks in it, giving substance and form to their worldviews, dreams, and words. For the viewer, this film is like a sensory stimulation pool, in which cinema proves to be a powerful instrument for the immersion in a reality whose recognizable boundaries are blurred and offer new worldviews, in order to share often unknown gazes and thoughts. (d.d.)
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 05 Nov 2024
- Time: 15:00
Location
- Cinema Astra - Piazza Cesare Beccaria, 9 50121 Florence (FI)
Organizer
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The Neurocultures Collective
Georgia Kumari Bradburn is a short filmmaker and a Film student at Queen Mary University of London. Her work focuses on metamorphosis and transformation, and how we can think of an embodied autistic phenomenology of cinema. | Sam Chown Ahern is a visual artist working with drawing, illustration, bookworks, photography and sound. She is a graduate of Wimbledon School of Art. Recent group shows include Barbican Young Visual Arts 2020. | Benjamin Brown is a film programmer and a writer. He has a BA degree in filmmaking from Lancaster University and an MSc in Film Programming (Edinburgh). His creative practice involves drawing, video, and photography. | Lucy Walker works with textiles, costume, model and puppet making, drawing, and small set building. Her work involves re-scripting and expanding the worlds of popular culture TV characters and storylines. | Robin Knowles graduated 2021 from a Fine Art Degree in Sussex. His art practice largely involves painting, drawing, and creating graphic-novel like illustrations. | Steven Eastwood is an award-winning artist filmmaker. His recent films and moving image artworks include Buried Land (2010), The Interval and the Instant (2017), Island (2018).
