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Abandoned Goods

2014-08-14 en 36m
Documentary
Abandoned Goods is an essay film exploring the journey of one of Britain’s major collections of Asylum Art containing about 5,500 objects (paintings, drawings, ceramics, sculptures and works on stone, flint and bone) created between 1946 and 1981, by about 140 people compelled to live in the Netherne psychiatric hospital in South London. Blending archive, reconstruction, animation, 35mm rostrum, and observational photography, the film explores the transformation of these objects from clinical material to revered art objects examining the lives of the creators and the changing contexts in which the objects were produced and displayed.

Music

Henning Christiansen

Researcher

Mark Harwood

Director

Pia Borg

Producer

Kate Ogborn

Writer

Edward Lawrenson

Color Designer

Scott Goulding

woman director

Status

Released

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Companies

  • Fly Film Company