TYPIST ARTIST PIRATE KING

Typist Artist Pirate King is an innovative and accessible dramatic feature film drawn from the extensive archives of art, diaries and letters held at Wellcome of artist and mental health survivor, Audrey Amiss. The film is a first person account and offers a rich insight into how Amiss saw and experienced the world.

Amiss described herself as someone who people crossed the road to avoid.

The film does not ‘other’ her, and, for those who did cross the road to avoid her, creates the opportunity to identify with her.

The film is a powerful contribution to conversations about mental health stigma and plays an important role in creating representation that can help erase stigma.

For the many people who define themselves as mental health patients/ clients/ users/ former users/ survivors, the film is actively speaking to them.

It does not merely address a so called “neuro-normal” audience but represents how ways of thinking, experiencing and seeing the world are diverse and urgently deserve to be represented in their complexity for all to see and engage with.

We anticipate a significant international release of the film, followed later by it being used as valuable study material within academia.