The Stimming Pool - Behind the Scenes, at Project Art Works

This Behind the Scenes Screening takes place at Project Art Works* as a fully accessible screening. Please book your tickets at Eventbrite, not on the Electric Palace website.

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Project Art Works co-presents the Hastings premiere of The Stimming Pool, innovative award-winning filmmaking shot on location in and around Hastings and co-written by Sam Ahern, Georgia Kumari Bradburn, Benjamin Brown, Steven Eastwood, Robin Elliot-Knowles and Lucy Walker. Created by a collective of neurodivergent filmmakers to provide an alternative and artistic take on what it's like to live with neurodivergence in a chaotic world not made for those who are different, this film has won awards from across the Globe and featured at last year's London Film Festival. The film experiments with an ’autistic camera’ or 'autistic gaze' and actively resists neurotypical ways of storytelling.

“That’s just how my brain works, and I think it was the same for the other collective members as well.” - Georgia Bradburn

About the screening location: Project Art Works

This screening will take place in the studio space of Project Art Works, one of the locations for the film, with high ambient light levels and the option to move around the space throughout the film. Members of the Project Art Works studios will curate additional spaces throughout the building, highlighting their own ways of enjoying film and the relationships between moving image and visual art in their diverse practices.

Project Art Works* offers level access throughout and is suitable for wheelchair users. Spectrum, a character created and embodied by one of the film’s co-creators, Lucy, will co-host the screening alongside other artist/makers from the Project Art Works studio.

IMPORTANT: This Behind the Scenes Screening takes place at Project Artworks* as a fully accessible screening alongside props and costumes from the film made by Lucy Walker from Project Art Works.

Please book your tickets at Eventbrite, not on the Electric Palace website:

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Screening at Project Art Works, Arch 1, Braybrooke Terrace, Hastings TN34 1TD

*Project Art Works collaborates with people with complex support needs, families and circles of support. Our practice intersects art and care, responding to neurodivergence, its gifts and impacts. Challenging paradigms of inclusion, it spans direct practical and holistic support, film, events, projects and exhibitions. Project Art Works studios provide the conditions for a broad range of autonomous and collaborative practices with neurodivergent artists, who take part on their own terms.

About our Neurodiversity Film Festival 2025

Neurodiversity Film Festival 2025 is a celebration of autism and neurodiversity on screen, making visible the characters and stories that are often invisible in contemporary mainstream cinema.

Presented by autistic and neurodivergent creatives and curators, we bring you a weekend of films showcasing autistic and neurodiverse film characters and narratives.

Developed in partnership with Autism Spectrum, Eggtooth, AMAZE, Project Artworks, The Roebuck Centre and Oska Bright Film Festival, and made possible with funding from the BFI and National Lottery.

Bring a trusted friend for free!

Tickets for our relaxed screenings and Neurodiversity Film Festival in March 2025, include our £10 double ticket option where you can bring a trusted friend along for free! Or come along on your own and meet some friendly faces eager to enjoy cinema in a relaxed environment.

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• the lights are low instead of completely off, so you can still see where you're going
• the volume is a little lower than a standard screening
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• there is a friendly atmosphere
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These events are supported by BFI Film Audience Network and Film Hub South East.

In partnership with Eggtooth and  Oska Bright Film Festival.

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