(Abandoned Goods)

Content: 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.

Countries:

United Kingdom

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

36 minutes

Year:

2014

Directors:

Pia Borg

Production companies:

Fly Film Company

Actors:

Voice

voice

Crews:

Additional Photography

Writer

Producer

Cinematography

Researcher