Abandoned Goods (2014)

Name: Abandoned Goods
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-06-29
Duration: 36 min
Cast: Nick James, Iain Sinclair

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NR 36 minOct 11th, 2014Documentary

Abandoned Goods is an essay film exploring the journey of one of Britains major collections of Asylum Art containing about 5500 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

StarringNick JamesIain Sinclair

DirectorsPia BorgEdward Lawrenson

WritersPia BorgEdward Lawrenson

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