Abandoned Goods
7.9
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.
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Cast
19 people
Pia Borg Director · Edward Lawrenson Director Philippe Ciompi Editor
United States release October 11, 2014 · Produced in United Kingdom
Production
Fly Film Company
Production
United Kingdom
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Switzerland · August 14, 2014
Theatrical · Locarno Film Festival
United States · October 11, 2014
Theatrical · Hamptons International Film Festival
Australia
August 8, 2015 · Melbourne International Film Festival
Switzerland
August 8, 2015 · Theatrical · Melbourne International Film Festival
United Kingdom
November 6, 2015 · Leeds International Film Festival
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