National Autistic Society: Sensory Overload

This inspirational film is the result of a collaboration between agency The News and production company Rattling Stick, created for World Autism Awareness Month (April).

The film, created for the National Autistic Society (NAS), opens on a dripping tap and a hollow echo. A dog barks steadily and repeatedly in the background as a painted mug comes to life; it’s clay eyes moving around the room. A mother and her daughter sit on the sofa watching a cartoon, the little girl taps her foot on the patterned sofa, the beat adds to the chorus of abstract sounds and the sofa design becomes three dimensional rising around the pair.

More distractions soon add to the rhythmic scene before the film cuts to Chile, who has autism. He sits silently at a table as his sensory sensitivity heightens. The clever and mesemerising film was edited by Izzy King at STITCH and Electric Theatre Collective also worked on the spot.