Co-created by The Neurocultures Collective – Sam Chown Ahern, Georgia Bradburn, Benjamin
Brown, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy Walker, artist-filmmaker Steven Eastwood, and Curator Gilly
Fox, STIM CINEMA takes the action of stimming as its starting point, connecting delight in repetition
to the birth of cinema and to contemporary fascination with GIFS. Stimming, is the practice of physical repetition as a way of taking sensory pleasure in recurrence, or of expressing and alleviating anxiety, and is a common trait of autistic experience. Including zoetropes (early moving image / precinematic
devices), an 18 minute looped video, and props and ephemera from the production process – STIM CINEMA invites the audience to take pleasure in discovering hidden repetitive movements, and the ever-stimming details of the everyday world. STIM CINEMA encourages us all to remember the joy we share in seeing actions rock and loop, and revealing that such stimulation is not only common to autistic experience but it is in the DNA of the moving image.