This film explores the history of the Essex County Hospital Center (Overbrook), a county mental hospital in the town of Cedar Grove NJ. In operation from the early 20th century to 2007, the facility once housed 4,000 patients, but was abandoned as psychiatric medications improved.
Through archival photos and new footage - including interviews, on-the-ground angles and aerial views - we experience the history of the facility, of psychiatric treatment, and of the relationship of the town and the institution. The film considers our responsibility to the memory of an important public institution that has outlived its usefulness.
The original musical soundtrack is by composer Jared Forman, who contributed to the Netflix series “Making a Murderer.”
Негізгі бет The Forgotten Overbrook Hospital
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