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Drawing on Autism

Alex Widdowson · UK · Documentary / Animation · 10 min · 16K views

Directed by Alex Widdowson · Starring Alex Widdowson · 2021

An animated documentary in which a non-autistic filmmaker questions the ethics of representing an autistic participant.

A rare, self-questioning animated documentary that asks who gets to tell someone else's story.

In Drawing on Autism by Alex Widdowson, we see an exploration of the ethical issues that arise when a non-autistic filmmaker attempts to represent an autistic documentary participant.

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