Rethinking Productivity: Work and Neurodivergence

Spoons (After Carolyn Lazard)

A moving image work based upon Spoons Theory, which uses spoons as a visualisation of the disparity in energy reserves between disabled and abled people. Though a disabled and abled person will start the day with the same number of spoons, an abled person may only need 1 spoon to undertake an activity such as going to the shops, while a disabled person might use 4 spoons. In this way, disabled people deplete their spoons (or energy reserves) far quicker and thus have to be conscious about how they spend their spoons. Spoons theory has translated into a colloquialism within crip communities – “I’m out of spoons” or “I’m going to spend my spoons on you.” A short movie by Jamila Prowse.

The Last Maslow's Day

The factory has closed. The machines have gone elsewhere. The chimney no longer smokes. Yet, every day, a man goes to work. Tirelessly. But in these huge empty workshops, the last day of this model worker arrives. A movie by Laurent Paillot.

Astrogolem

 A film about a love triangle set in a fantastical world where science and the supernatural collide. The story follows the brilliant inventor, Nikola Tesla, as he and Alan Turing accidentally release demons into our dimension. The film tells a story of love, sacrifice, and the consequences of playing with powers beyond human understanding. It is a thrilling journey into a world where science and the supernatural coexist, and the choices we make have the power to shape our destiny. An animation film by Thorston Fleisch.

Aufsicht (Supervision)

Visibly invisible, they move between the exhibits in the Pinakothek der Moderne. They are not allowed to sit, they are not allowed to read - they are the guardians of art. They make sure that nobody touches anything, turn off the shrill beeping alarm for the 100th time a day if a visitor has come too close to a painting again, observe who is touched by the art and who, as a family man dragged along, would rather have stayed at home on the sofa after all. Sometimes they even dream themselves far away. A movie by Lion Bischof. 

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Note: This film is shown with extended subtitles (SDH) and audio description (AD) for people with visual impairments, provided by Klappe Auf.

Von den Amöben zum Bösen (From Amoebas to Evil)

It's all a story-teller thing: fantasies of the past. Not t h i s history, but stories of the world ... from amoebas to evil.
A fantasy-driven retelling of world history: What were the Big Bang and primordial soup, how were the wheel and the rollator invented? Professor Birgit Hohnen mixes facts, fiction and alphabet soup, questions truths and turns them on their head, stirred and shaken. A movie by Daniela Chmelik and Iskender Kökce.

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Note: This film is shown with extended subtitles (SDH) and audio description (AD) for people with visual impairments, provided by Klappe Auf.

Not the Clowns

After the autistic young actress Cassie fails an audition because she can't show fear, Cassie seeks solace with her autistic younger brother Dave, who is a movie geek. Together with her current boyfriend Levi, they watch the horror movie “Not the Clowns”, which soon shifts the boundaries between dream and reality for Cassie. A movie by Marcel Flock.