The story of artist Edith Lake Wilkinson, a painter who was committed to an asylum in 1924 and never heard from again. All her worldly possessions were packed into trunks and shipped to a relative in West Virginia where they sat in an attic for 40 years. Edith's great-niece, Emmy Award winning writer and director Jane Anderson, grew up surrounded by Edith's paintings, thanks to her mother who had gone poking through that dusty attic and rescued Edith's work. The film follows Jane in her decades-long journey to find the answers to the mystery of Edith's buried life, return the work to Provincetown and have Edith's contributions recognized by the larger art world.
Direction
Boyaner lets Jane's obsession become ours
Production
Those trunks opening feel like actual resurrection
Director
Michelle Boyaner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Provincetown was a thriving queer artist colony in 1920s—Edith's commitment likely destroyed a community node we'll never fully recover. The film maps this loss.
Jane Anderson's Emmy-winning career (Olive Kitteridge, The Positively True Adventures) literally exists because her mother rescued those trunks. Art begetting art across generations of women.
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