The Stimming Pool (12A) - Relaxed Screening

Dir. The Neurocultures Collective (a collective of neurodiverse directors;  Sam Chown Ahern, Georgia Bradburn, Benjamin Brown, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy Walker) and Steven Eastwood | 2025 | 67 mins | English

The Stimming Pool is a unique film exploring a world shaped by neurodiverse perspectives.

A B-Movie film club host introduces a lost animated horror movie; a young woman fills out questionnaires and watches sequences in an eye tracking test; an office worker goes about their life, masking their autistic nature; a picture book tells the story of an enigmatic dog-human spirit watching over people with disabilities. 

The Stimming Pool is an experimental and sometimes magical hybrid film 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 respite from them. Sometimes the camera wanders off without any guide, finding an ancient woodland, an abandoned testing centre, even a fragment from an animated zombie film set in the American civil war…

Like a Russian doll of Where’s Wally scenes, the film invites the audience to take pleasure in exploring details in every part of the frame. Each of the characters exists in a separate world nested inside one other and often jumping up and down levels. But gradually we come to realise they have common experiences. Some are concealing their autism and dealing with the resulting feelings of isolation, while others thrive in the communities and support structures around them. All, however, have a shared objective: to find a place where they are free to move and stim, uninhibited by the tests and restrictions of normative society. This secret place is the Stimming Pool…

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Film-makers on the autistic spectrum dive ingeniously into the uncanny.' - The Guardian

Relaxed Screening 

Everyone is welcome to these screenings,  but we have made them especially suitable to those who find standard screenings overwhelming. We will make the following adjustments:

• The house lights are left on low and the sound turned down a little.

• There are no pre-feature adverts or trailers and the film starts at the time advertised.

The Stimming Pool (12A) - Relaxed Screening

Friday 16th May, 6.00pm

Tickets: £8.20/£6.70/£6.00

A £1 Poly Fund payment is added to each ticket sold. A 50p booking fee is also applied per ticket for online and telephone transactions.

Please be aware films will start at the advertised time, we rarely show adverts and usually show under 5 minutes of trailers. 

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