The Stimming Pool

5/1/2025

The first ten minutes of this documentary don’t really comes across as anything too different. We meet two gents who run a sci-fi film club at their local cinema in Hastings talking about the the relative merits - well demerits, really, of schlock. We get some clues from their language that one of the two is neurodiverse. Their introduction showcases a few further vignettes from others whose appreciation of things artistic (and scientific) might vary from those of the bulk of the population, and the six directors offer us a compendium of projects that challenge the standard way of film creation and production. As we get deeper into this experimental feature, we discover that they are all working together as they create their “Stimming Pool” concept, or really a series of concepts, that don