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b'(Film): Culture expressed through gesture, sensations all over, and the way the world understands itself: we don\\u2019t want to put anything in here that doesn\\u2019t make it better. \\n\\nA 20 minute film, played on loop, is projected on a large 3 by 4 metre wide screen which has been hung in front of a black curtain. \\n\\nThe film presents diverse people sitting or standing in relaxed postures or stimming, all in front of a hand painted blue and orange abstract sky.\\nAt times the camera captures close-ups of their faces, torsos, in and out of focus.\\n\\nWhile the people discuss their lived experience of autism, they often express their stimming as they describe it, such as: eating various types of food, skin stroking, hair twirling, arm flailing, painting, palms pressing into one another, skin being pushed and manipulated, lips sucked, and fingers tapping. \\nThere are further glimpses of these physical details recorded through a macro lens, conveying extreme close up imagery of fingers, eyes, skin, hair, and other fragments of the interviewees stimming. \\n\\nAfter the interview, spoken section, when the music takes over, there are close ups of tactile and sensory interactions between human and environment - exploring ideas of stimming:\\n\\nA person dances.\\nHands rub a pea over lips.\\nHands touch fabric, tracing the patterns in decorative wool.\\nHands draw.\\nMarbles are rubbed.\\nWater drips down surfaces.\\nSoft looking material tenderly rubbed.\\nA face covered in vibrant blue and gold paint, the cracks and lines of their skin seen through the thick layers of paint.\\nPolished covered nails that prod and pull.\\nA series of moving images of the sea - corals of various shapes with the current pulling and pushing them, all within a neon blue and green light.\\nFabric being pulled over a face that bundles in thick golden piles, looking like ridges of great desert plains.'