The Stimming Pool

/Directed by Sam Chown-Ahern, Georgia Bradburn, Benjamin Brown, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy Walker, Steven Eastwood
/Produced by Chloe White and Steven Eastwood

/Feature Documentary

/2023 (70 mins)

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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.

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"IT IS SOMETHING TRULY COLLECTIVE – RADICAL IN WAYS THAT CHALLENGE NOT JUST NEURODIVERSE STEREOTYPES, BUT THE FILM'S INDUSTRY STANDARD WAYS OF TELLING A STORY."

SOPHIE MONKS KAUFMAN, SIGHT AND SOUND (APRIL 2025 ISSUE)

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"A DENSE, ELLIPTICAL FILM THAT REWARDS REPEATED VIEWING"

​SASKIA BARON, THE GUARDIAN​

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"ENGAGING AND ILLUMINATING" 

BUSINESS DOC EUROPE​

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"THE STIMMING POOL IS LIKE NOTHING ELSE YOU MAY HAVE SEEN ON THE FILM FESTIVAL CIRCUIT THIS YEAR"

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER​​

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"DESERVES TO BE SEEN AT LEAST TWICE"

MODERN TIMES REVIEW

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The Stimming Pool is now on general release in the UK

https://www.dartmouthfilms.com/thestimmingpool

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Longlisted for BIFA - Best Debut Director (Feature Documentary) 2024.  

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