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This is what the animated movie ‘Mind My Mind’ does better than other movies and series about autism
Around the end of 2018 I received an email from Floor Adams, who was working on an animated movie with an autistic protagonist. The email stood out to me because it felt like Floor had been very thorough in her ideas about how to visually represent autism. It can be difficult to visually represent autism because autism is something that, for the most part, goes on in someone’s head. So how would you visualize that? Just the sole fact that the creator mentioned this problem gave me hope that I would be watching an accurate representation of autism. An autistic Film and Television scientist I am a Film and Television…
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Float: a Disney+ Pixar short about being different
Float is a short, animated movie with a runtime of a little over five minutes (so it’s a very short movie!). Initially I was planning to write a short blog about it, but as you can see, I failed to so do. This is because, despite the short duration, there is a lot to say about the imaging of the movie. The short is about a father who discovers that his son is different than other kids. At first the father watches in awe how his son floats through the air, but he quickly comes to realize that other people are startled by it and gossip about it. The father…
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Autism on Netflix
Every title I could find that’s on Netflix and has a character with autism in it. These are available to watch in the United States. They may not be available in every country. I didn’t make a selection. It’s just everything that I could find about autism that is on Netflix. Series Atypical: about autistic high school student Sam, who longs for more independence. Fiction movies The Lighthouse of the Orcas/El Faro de las Orcas: a mother travels from Spain to Argentine, to find out if orcas can help her autistic son with his emotions. Madre: thriller about a mother that hires a nanny to take care of her autistic…
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First article coming soon!
I will be posting my first article in june 2020.