Unlikely Treasures
NEW DOCS
A gaggle of delightfully eccentric collectors welcome you into their obsessions with staplers, copper molds, mid-century clocks, small plastic fruits, Statue of Liberty postcards, and other items undervalued by average folk. Not hoarders, these are high-functioning individuals with tidy apartments and personal relationships. What, really, is the difference between one collector’s seemingly irrational passion and the role of the culturally valued curator at a museum? To answer the question, the film takes us on visits to private collections as well as to the City Reliquary in Brooklyn, which displays personal accumulations in a sociable atmosphere, and an institution named Elsewhere in Greensboro, once a junk store where nothing was for sale and now a unique site for artist installations. LB
Director
Tally Abecassis
Producer
Nathalie Barton
Editor
Oana Suteu
Cinematographer
Claudine Sauvé
Release Year
2010
Festival Year
2011
Country
Canada
Run Time
52 minutes
Premiere
World Premiere