The Stimming Pool – The new film from The Neurocultures Collective and Steven Eastwood gets a release date

The Stimming Pool is an experimental—at times fantastical—hybrid feature film, co-created by a collective of autistic artists, the Neurocultures Collective (Sam Chown Ahern, Georgia Bradburn, Benjamin Brown, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy Walker), and artist-filmmaker Steven Eastwood, who invite you into a neurodiverse world within the undulating logic of neurotypical environments.

After a sold-out run at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival, Dartmouth Films will release The Stimming Pool to audiences across the UK on 28th March 2025.

A curious and engaging feature film, it presents the possibilities of a world informed by autistic perspectives and perception. 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 directors invite the audience to take pleasure in exploring details in every part of the frame. Each of the characters exists in a separate world whilst also jumping and cutting through one another. 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…

The Stimming Pool will be released in cinemas across the UK on 28th March 2025.