Film
Abandoned Goods
United Kingdom- Director
- Pia Borg
- Year
- 2014
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.
Top cast
Directed by
Pia Borg, Edward Lawrenson
Written by
Edward Lawrenson, Pia Borg
Produced by
Kate Ogborn, Hanna Sahloul, Lisa Marie Russo
