The Sitting
A short documentary film commissioned by the Foundling Museum to document a landmark project for which five major artists created five major portraits of five sitters – former pupils of the Foundling Hospital. The film also records the sitters experience of being raised by the hospital from an early age. The film is on display as a permanent exhibition alongside the portraits within the Foundling Museum.
Director & editor: Gilly Booth, Director of photography: Anthony Lucas, Line producer: Louis Mealing, Project manager: Laura House, Composer: Max Richter, Graphic design: Hat-trick.
a hijack production
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Film still, Mahtab Hussain photographing John Caldicott
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Film stills
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Artists Ingrid Pollard, David Moore, Jillian Edelstein and Wolfgang Tilson with sitters Ruth Amberly, Henry Grainger and Lydia Carmichael.