Abandoned Goods

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.

Nick James

Voice

Iain Sinclair

voice

• Pia BorgDirector · Writer
• Edward LawrensonWriter · Director
• Kate OgbornProducer
• Hanna SahloulProducer
• Lisa Marie RussoProducer
• Philippe CiompiEditor

Release date

August 14, 2014

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

36m

Genres

Documentary

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