Inside Motherwell’s Dumpster
2014 Online New England Film Festival | Provincetown International Film Festival | Documentary | Maine | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now
Mike Wright is a sculptor working in the rich tradition of scavengers on the tip of Cape Cod. She finds unusual pieces of painted wood in a dumpster outside Sea Barn, the former home and studio of the abstract expressionist painter Robert Motherwell. In a new sculpture she layers in Provincetown’s life as an important arts colony.
Film Details
Director: Marnie Crawford Samuelson
Year of Release: 2014
Running Time: 9
New England Connection: Marnie Crawford Samuelson, director and camera, lives and works in Jamaica Plain and Wellfleet, MA. Brought up in MA.
Mike Wright, co-producer and subject, lives and works in Provincetown, MA
Shane Hofeldt, editor, lives and works in Camden, ME.
David Guerette, composer, lives and works in ME.
Director(s) Bio:: Marnie Crawford Samuelson is a documentary photographer and audio & multimedia producer. She was the photographer for The Wild Braid, a collaboration with poet laureate Stanley Kunitz and poet Genine Lentine, which was published by W.W. Norton & Company in 2005. Her photographs have appeared in magazines, including Newsweek, People, U.S. News & World Report, Smithsonian, and The New Yorker.
Crawford Samuelson has directed and filmed several short documentaries.
She lives in Jamaica Plain, MA and Wellfleet, MA.
Camera Used: D800
Editing software: Premiere Pro
Budget: 3000
Financed by: Self-financed
