Stim Cinema is a multi-screen gallery installation that looks at the concept of stimming within the medium of film. 

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Stimming (or self stimulatory behaviour) "is the practice of physical repetition as a way of taking sensory pleasure in recurrence, or of expressing and alleviating anxiety, and a common trait of autistic experience."

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Co-created by The Neurocultures Collective - Sam Chown Ahern, Georgia Bradburn, Benjamin Brown, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy Walker - and artist-filmmaker Steven Eastwood, 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. The artwork invites the audience to take pleasure in discovering hidden repetitive movements, reminding us all of the joy we share in seeing actions rock and loop, and revealing that such stimulation is not only common to autistic experience but in the DNA of the moving image.

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