Screening
Penny Lane: In Focus - The Pain of Others (2018)
7 Sep 2018
Event times
18:10
Cost of entry
£12 Standard / £11 Student
Address
- BFI Southbank
- Belvedere Road, South Bank
- London
- SE1 8XT
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Waterloo, Embankment and Charing Cross.
Open City Documentary Festival will be presenting a focus on Penny Lane, a revered director who has been making innovative nonfiction films for over a decade. Alongside a selection of her shorts, we will screen her features Our Nixon and The Pain of Others.
About
Morgellons disease is a medical mystery. Although doctors have no explanation for the condition, thousands of sufferers claim to experience a persistent crawling sensation under their skin, thin fibres growing out of their body and a host of other symptoms. Penny Lane dives head first into the online community of Morgellons patients re-working candid home-videos uploaded to YouTube by three women who are afflicted with the disease. The Pain of Others explores the slippery ideas around self-diagnosis, empathy and online support networks but Lane’s original and unsettling film refuses to offer answers to any of its own questions.
+ Q&A with director Penny Lane.
Part of Penny Lane: In Focus, a series of screenings + Q&A's with Lane.
Other events include a screening of Our Nixon (2013) and a The Short Films of Penny Lane (2004 - 2018).
