The Potential Space Film stills from the film by Albert Potrony in collaboration with Friends of Cathja Commissioned by Friends of Cathja and Mental Health Foundation for Anxiety Arts Festival London 2014 Funded by Time To Change and Mental Health Foundation May 2014 Copyright Albert Potrony

1. The Potential Space
Film stills from The Potential Space
A film by Albert Potrony

2. THE POTENTIAL SPACE, Albert Potrony 2014
20 minutes, colour, stereo, 16:9, HDV
The Potential Space developed from a period of research at the Friends of Cathja barge in
Isleworth as part of the Anxiety Festival 2014.
The work focuses on the relationships between the people working in this unorthodox
space, the work they produce and the setting they are in. The film observes the parallels
between making utilitarian objects and artistic practice, documenting some of the rhythms,
routines and processes that take place on the barge.
Within the film’s narrative the inaccessible Island opposite the boat becomes a dream
space that can contain both our fears and anxieties and our potential to create.
The Potential Space explores the transformative power of making in the company of others.

15. The Potential Space
A film by Albert Potrony in collaboration with Friends of Cathja
Commissioned by Friends of Cathja and Mental Health Foundation
for Anxiety Arts Festival London 2014
Copyright - Albert Potrony 2014
Funded by Time To Change and Mental Health Foundation
www.anxiety2014.org
www.cathja.org
www.mentalhealth.org.uk/our-work/anxiety-arts-festival-2014/
www.time-to-change.org.uk