This film follows laundromat owner Evelyn Wang as she leaps across the multiverse in a mission to save everything in existence from being swallowed by the endless abyss of a black hole, created by an alternate version of her daughter, Joy.
There's so many different universes that Evelyn experiences, even one world where Evelyn and Joy are rocks. So to celebrate that world as it's one of our favourite scenes in the film we are all creating an emotional support pet rock before the film screening, doors are at 6:30PM.
In early drafts of the script, Evelyn was written as a character with undiagnosed ADHD.
While no explicit reference to Evelyn's ADHD made it into the film's final edit; Everything Everywhere All At Once serves as a visual pastiche of colliding and intersecting allegories for neurodivergent experiences.
The film becomes a love story between Evelyn and her selves. A journey into the endless existence of every possible choice she could have made throughout her life, culminates in a final act to find her daughter and restore their fractured relationship.
This is the first film screening of new film club Ms. Diagnosed. Putting the spotlight on films with female protagonists* whose stories resonate with the lives & experiences of neurodivergent women and girls.
Ms. Diagnosed is a creative response to suggestions from the current health secretary that the UK is experiencing an over-diagnosis of neurodivergent conditions, with little to no acknowledgement of the decades-long under-diagnosis of neurodivergence in people socialised as women and girls.
*Includes the multifaceted experiences of self-identifying women and girls, and people of marginalised genders.
Ms. Diagnosed is collaboratively curated by folks from the Leeds DIY film community who are (late) diagnosed or self-recognised neurodivergent.
Laur - Hermit Pictures
Han - Feel Good Film Club Experience
Rai - Poisoned Peach Cinema
Films chosen for screenings will feature female characters who may be coded - or retrospectively read as - neurospicy huns.
Be aware the screening is upstairs with no lift access.
Content Warning
Profound emotional themes including *Suicide *Depression *Generational trauma.
*Surreal violence *Drug references *nudity.
The film contains heavy, prolonged, and intense strobe/flashing light effects.
