Riverview Trilogy
Asylum
2008, super 8, 7 minutes
created by Heidi Currie & lisa g
Nurse Norma McMurdo recollects working at Riverview Mental Hospital (Coquitlam, B.C Canada) from 1949-1951. In particular are compassionate memories of lesbian patients and the understanding that they weren’t actually crazy.
Bedlam
2010, archival images, super 8 film & digital media, 12 minutes 45 seconds
created by Heidi Currie, Anna Tremere & lisa g
This film combines archival material with recreation super 8 footage of the historic Asylum at "Essondale", later known as Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam, B.C.
Health care worker Kay Clayton worked there in 1945 when she was only 16 and then again in 1973 until her retirement in 1988.
Consciousness
2012, archival images & film, digital media, 23 minutes 52 seconds
created by Heidi Currie, Anna Tremere & lisa g
the story of Dr. Ralph Arrowsmith, a mid-century asylum psychiatrist with a life-long connection to British Columbia's Riverview Hospital, a passion for the psychiatric movement and an unending commitment to his patients.
featuring archival film and photography - this story spans 40 years of mental health history.
Asylum stills
Bedlam stills
Consciousness stills
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