I experienced what I perceived to be discrimination in the workplace and at doctor’s offices. I went from being invisible to changing grocery stores because men would glare at me. It was right after I cut my hair off and started presenting more masculinely. I wrote ET, while deep in the throes of the Big Sad, to make myself feel powerful. In the face of adversity, he gets angry, because he doesn’t understand why some people get to skate through life while he gets treated like trash. He’s different? People seem to treat him like an outsider. But he’s got this lingering feeling that something isn’t right. Bound to human form, he’s just that: a person. This is the point where Lucifer forgets who he is.
as in Extra-Terrestrial, as in being treated like an alien, but also as in Estrogen & Testosterone, the sex hormones. It’s still groovy, menacing, and bitter, with samples from its namesake movie, and vocal sci fi synths. you all know (and love! Thank you!) already. We also pick up on ET as a film about communication, connecting this with non-normative modes of autistic communication.This is the clean (and cleaned-up) version of the E.T. We find particular interest in the film's navigation of tropes from horror films and family dramas, and we consider Elliot as a figure of loneliness. Sam also presented a wonderfully bizarre re-edit of a scene from ET at the Autism Through Cinema conference in January 2023, and we discuss her motivations behind these artistic choices.īut mostly, we're having a good old chat about a well-beloved film. We're also incredibly delighted to welcome yet another wonderful special guest, the brilliant Sam Chown-Ahern! Sam is a filmmaker, artist, collaborator, and member of the Neurocultures Collective, who are currently working with Autism Through Cinema in the creation of an experimental feature film.
We're back among the aliens and the spaceships today as we tackle Steven Spielberg's tear-jerking classic.
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