The Stimming Pool

The Stimming Pool is an experimental and sometimes magical hybrid film. It is built around the concept of an autistic camera. The curiosity of this camera discovers a relay of subjects who stray through the world. It reveals environments often hostile to autistic experiences. 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. It finds 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 Stimming Pool invites you 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. Some are hiding their autism. Some are dealing with feelings of isolation. While others thrive in communities and support structures around them. They all have shared goals. To find a place where they are free to move and stim. This secret place is the Stimming Pool.