The Stimming Pool

To mark Autism Acceptance Month, Access Film Club will host this special screening of The Stimming Pool + Q&A. All tickets £6.90. 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. The film presents the possibilities of a world informed by autistic perspectives and perception. The drifting form of this experimental and sometimes magical film is built around the concept of an autistic camera. The curiosity of this camera discovers 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 during the American Civil War. Join us for this screening hosted by our Access Film Club host, Random Coyle. They will be joined by co-director of The Stimming Pool Sam Chown Ahern. Sam 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?' The Q&A will be Live Captioned. The film has been mixed and volume set for relaxed screenings (a slightly lower level thna standard screenings at GFT). There is access to a Calm Kit, which includes stim toys and a weighted shoulder blanket, and Quiet Room which is on the third level of the GFT. Access Film Club is GFT's monthly autism-friendly film event, in partnership with National Autistic Society Scotland.DocumentaryPT1H7M12A2025-04-07

Andrea Spisto

Sam Chown-Ahern

Robin Elliott-Knowles

Steven Eastwood

Benjamin Brown

Georgia Kumari Bradburn

Lucy Walker

Robin Elliott-Knowles

Sam Chown-Ahern

The Stimming Pool"The Stimming Pool"

Showtimes

April 7, 6:00 pm