03.10.08
My collection of shaving stuff…
Film-maker Martin Hampton has created a revealing documentary on four people with different degrees of compulsive hoarding, where individuals incessantly collect household objects, even to the point of not being able to throw out rubbish.
Compulsive hoarding is often linked to obsessive-compulsive disorder, where affected people experience intrusive thoughts or urges to complete certain actions (most commonly ‘washing’ or ‘checking’) even though they know how seriously these intrusions are affecting their lives.
Hampton’s documentary is a remarkably well made account of people with similar urges, in this case to collect and retain, and just lets the individuals and the images speak for themselves (it is also freely available online as wide screen HD, so looks wonderful).
Apparently the documentary was created as part of a Master’s course in visual anthropology, a field I’d not come across before, but which seems to be concerned with documenting the diversity of human experience through film.
Possessed does this admirably and seems to have garnered numerous awards since its release.
I should add that I just entered into an agreement with another shaver on ShaveMyFace.com that we would buy no shaving stuff for one year.
the wife said,
10 March 2008 at 1:46 pm
“I should add that I just entered into an agreement with another shaver on ShaveMyFace.com that we would buy no shaving stuff for one year.”
Ooh, that’s gonna take a lot of glucose…
Giovanni said,
11 March 2008 at 7:52 am
..but it’s OK to trade, right? The agreement specifically states “buy”!!!