Abandoned Goods
Pia Borg, Edward Lawrenson
2014 - 37 min - 35 mm & S16 mm - Couleur - Royaume-Uni

Co-directed with Edward Lawrenson, "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.

Art | Guerre de 39-45 | Histoire


Author-Director : Pia Borg, Edward Lawrenson
Delegate Producer : Fly Film

Distribution


Distributor : Fly Film

Distinctions

2015 - Huesca Film Festival, Huesca (Espagne) : Mention spéciale
2015 - True False Film Festival, Colombia (États-Unis) : Sélection
2015 - FULL FRAME Documentary Film Festival, Durham (États-Unis) : Sélection
2014 - Festival internazionale del film Locarno, Locarno (Suisse) : Golden Leopard for Best International Short
2014 - Sundance Film Festival, Utah (États-Unis) : Sélection officielle