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Film short abstract

Olof and the Aliens is an experimental ethnoscience-fiction film co-created with Olof, a film enthusiast with an intellectual disability. The film follows Olof's story as imagination, collaboration, and creativity become tools for navigating disability access, care, and inclusion.

Film synopsis

Olof and the Aliens is a experimental ethnoscience-fiction film co-created with Olof, a film enthusiast with an intellectual disability who is in contact with extraterrestrial beings. Blending documentary observation with speculative fiction, the film follows Olof as he constructs a sci-fi universe that becomes a way of navigating everyday life, care, and collaboration.

The film shows how one of Olof’s imaginative tales comes to life when he meets Leonie, a medical anthropologist committed to helping him fulfill his dream of creating a science fiction movie. Inspired by Olof’s world-making, the film treats imagination as a space where lived experience, fantasy, and authorship are negotiated collectively. The result is a hybrid cinematic form that combines ethnographic material with DIY sci-fi to tell the story of Olof and illustrate the transformative potential of collaboration, community, and creativity in addressing questions of disability access and inclusion.