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.
Credits
Abandoned Goods Cast
| Name |
Character |
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Iain Sinclair
He was 71, now 81 years old
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as voice |
Abandoned Goods Crew
| Name |
Department |
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James Clarke as Digital Intermediate. He was 140 (55) years old when He died
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Editing |
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Kate Ogborn as Producer. |
Production |
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Nick Gordon Smith as Cinematography. |
Crew |
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Jim Anderson as Archival Footage Research. He was 108 (59) years old when He died
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Editing |