The Autistic Camera

Workshop overview

What does an autistic cinema look like? In this relaxed workshop, filmmaker Georgia Kumari Bradburn explores embodied cinematic perspectives that embrace non-normative communication and emphasize non-verbal, empathic connections between filmmaker and audience. Using examples of sensory encounters and unconventional techniques in film, including a case study of The Stimming Pool, this workshop will take you through the many ways in which the camera can not only document but also embody autistic experience, using the cinematic apparatus to inhabit states of masking, drifting, meltdown, stimming, and what lies in between.

About the teacher

Georgia Kumari Bradburn (she/they) is an award-winning filmmaker, artist, writer and curator working in London, UK. Her work explores cinematic phenomenology and sensory communication through the lens of disability and difference, using hybrid documentary and experimental film to develop cinematic languages existing outside of neuronormative frameworks. They are a co-director of The Stimming Pool  (CPH:Dox, MoMA Doc Fortnight, London Film Festival) and a co-director of the relaxed screening curatorial collective Stims.

NOTE: This is an online workshop. Workshop Fee: $30