Screened officially at The British Film Institute and Stargazer magazine launch (2025)
 
Throughout my life, I have struggled with undiagnosed autism, seeing it negatively impact my life as I have tried to navigate a neurotypical world. My behaviours, coping strategies and thought processes have consistently been labelled as 'weird', where I have always felt like an outsider amongst my own peers and social environment.
 
However, fast-forwarding to the summer of 2024, an official diagnosed changed my world. What was once seen as 'bad behaviour' was now accepted as a neurological difference that needed to be accepted, not shunned, and a new wave of conflicting emotions. I cried, screamed, laughed, sat in silence, and battled against various emotions in an attempt to come to terms with my new found diagnosis. Now content with who I am, I felt it only right to share this with the world, through the only medium that I have found to make sense ...
 
The Holotropic Line is a short, stop-motion hybrid that explores my long-standing battling of accepting and navigating my autism. Following a caricature of myself, we explore the labyrinth of the London Underground and the difficulties the noises, sights and sensory input of others brings. Falling in and out of a fantastical mushroom world, our character battles to keep themselves stable whilst masking to reject their authentic self. But one question remains; will they continue to push away their truth? Or will they embrace their differences?

Made in collaboration with Ainara Giraldo, Odysseas Pantazis and Alesha Saidanha
Music by Runako Bedeau