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Big money, big spectacle & invisible truths in Christopher Nolan’s atomic blockbuster
Vicki Lesley is... Documental
A documentary filmmaker's dispatches from behind the scenes of my latest doc, plus honest life shares, conversations with great people and THE FILM THREAD, my hand-curated members' film club. One curious mind, applied to everything.
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Please Stand By: A special summer live event for The Film Thread 🎬🪡🖖
Join me & Gareth Bradwick on 20th Aug to dive into this month’s autism pick: a female-centred, Trekkie-celebrating, race-against-time road trip from 2017
Following the threads from...'Ben X'
5 European films about autism to make you smile
Who You Make a Film With Matters
Reflections on finding the right collaborators for my nuclear colonialism short doc
‘Ben X’ (2007): truth, lies & reality blur in July’s autism film club pick
A bullied teen spirals towards the 'endgame' in this dark & dizzying Belgian psychological cyber-thriller
Following the threads from... 'Ce gamin, là'
More cinematic avenues to explore after watching the 1970s French vérité autism doc
Comparison (or, am I still a filmmaker?)
An update on an old post, plus my current nuclear colonialism reading pile
'Ce gamin, là' (1976): the pioneering autism documentary you've never heard of
Defying late-’60s psychiatric orthodoxy with communal living & wordless wanderings at a radical care community for “incurables” in a remote village in the Cévennes
Autism & Me: Jaime A. Heidel
Beyond assumptions: on helping the neurotypical world see the human being in front of them.
Making the invisible visible
Early thoughts and notes on some of the challenges of tackling Britain's forgotten nuclear colonialism in Nevada in my new documentary film