“Inside Motherwell’s Dumpster” 2014

Directed by Marnie Crawford Samuelson

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.

Shown at 2014 Online New England Film Festival, Provincetown Film Festival, Woods Hole Film Festival

Director: Marnie Crawford Samuelson
Year of Release: 2014
Running Time: 9 min

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.