Autism through Cinema

Are you coming to a special Q&A screening of The Stimming Pool? https://www.dartmouthfilms.com/thestimmingpool

More Q&A events now on sale ahead of our theatrical release in cinemas on March 28.
Book at https://www.dartmouthfilms.com/thestimmingpool

being discussed on by and co-director and members of Neurocultures Collective

This week, STIM CINEMA exhibition opens at the Nottingham Castle

The exhibition has been co-created by members of The Neurocultures Collective (Georgia Bradburn, Benjamin Brown, Sam Chown-Ahern, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy Walker), with artist and filmmaker Steven Eastwood.

STIM CINEMA takes the action of stimming – ‘the practice of physical repetition as a way of taking sensory pleasure in recurrence, or of expressing and alleviating anxiety, and a common trait of autistic experience’ – as its starting point, connecting delight in repetition to the birth of cinema and to the contemporary fascination with GIFS.

https://www.nottinghamcastle.org.uk/stim-cinema/

Drawing on Autism is now available to watch online for free, and has been chosen as a Vimeo Staff Pick!

Watch via Aeon https://aeon.co/videos/an-animator-wonders-can-you-ever-depict-someone-without-making-them-a-caricature

Or direct on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/753669702

The Autism through Cinema podcast has been busy, with new episodes covering Pierrot le Fou, Sayonara CP, City Lights Kiki’s Delivery Service, Moonrise Kingdom and more!

Listen at https://www.autism-through-cinema.org.uk/atcpodcast

Huge congratulations to our PhD candidate Alex Widdowson for picking up a second award for Drawing on Autism. The short was awarded the Student's Blue Riband Award for Best AnimaDoc at the Rising of Lusitania - AnimaDoc Film Festival.

The judges commented that they awarded the Blue Riband...
"...for skillfully juggling the perspectives of the story and taking up an important topic in a humanly way."

https://www.autism-through-cinema.org.uk/post/second-award-for-drawing-on-autism

Drawing on Autism is showing at the Edinburgh International Film Festival this month, and the film is also nominated for a McLaren Award.
Tickets: https://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/2022/shorts-mclaren-animation-1/08-13_13-00

Over at the BFI our collaborator and former podcast guest Benjamin Brown, aka Citizen Autistic, has curated a series of screenings. The chosen films focus on exploring difference and 'the sensory effects the ambient sights and sounds of nature can have upon both body and mind'.

The next event on 27th June will feature a screening of Patrick Shen's In Pursuit of Silence, a meditative documentary about the healing powers of quietude. The event will feature an introduction and discussion, and will be a relaxed event suitable for neurodivergent audiences.

Citizen Autistic @ the BFI Over at the BFI our collaborator and former podcast guest Benjamin Brown, aka Citizen Autistic, is curating a three-film series of screenings across the summer of 2022. The chosen films focus on exploring difference and 'the sensory effects the ambient sights and sounds of nature can have upon both....

Have you listened to our podcast recently? Our newest episodes tackle various cinematic representations of Batman, and in the first of a series of special episodes talking with neurodivergent and autistic industry voices, we welcome video artist Alicia Radage

https://www.autism-through-cinema.org.uk/atcpodcast

Alex Widdowson recently presented a paper at the 6th Ecstatic Truth Symposium in Prague, at Vysoká škola kreativní komunikace - VŠKK

Watch his presentation "Levinasian ethics and animated documentary practice: attending to the alterity of participant" here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F94snXaoVW4&t=9169s

Happy
Our creative collaborators Project Art Works, made up of 40 neurodivergent artists, will be delivering the annual lecture at the Centre for Film and Ethics on April 5th.
Book now https://www.autism-through-cinema.org.uk/post/centre-for-film-ethics-annual-lecture-with-project-art-works