Three by Penny Lane
With a keen eye for offbeat angles into contemporary American culture and its antedecents—from eccentric hucksters through to Satanists and Kenny G.—Penny Lane has distinguished herself as a non-fiction filmmaker of rare curiosity and wit. Her work has a pop culture-ish humor and lightness of touch that belies its deeply thoughtful and sometimes sly nature. You’ll feel the ground shift beneath your feet in this collection, comprising her first three features.
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Our Nixon
Directed by Penny Lane | 85 mins | 2013
Using an array of archival materials including television interviews, Nixon’s secretly recorded White House tapes, and more than 500 reels of long-out-of-circulation Super 8 home movies by presidential aides Dwight Chapin, John Ehrlichman, and H.R. Haldeman... -
Nuts!
Directed by Penny Lane | 79 mins | 2016
Thanks to a preternatural knack for self-promotion and a commitment to the medical possibilities of goat testicles, John Romulus Brinkley, born into poverty in 1885, acquired fame and fortune and very nearly become the governor of Kansas. Director Penny Lan... -
The Pain of Others
Directed by Penny Lane | 71 mins | 2018
Taking Leslie Jamison’s 2013 Harper’s essay on Morgellons disease as a jumping off point, Penny Lane here assembles clips of YouTube vloggers claiming to suffer from the controversial disease purposefully and with great care. She draws her title from Susan ... -
First Films with Penny Lane
Directed by Metrograph | 13 mins | 2024
Filmmaker Penny Lane discusses her first film, "Our Nixon."
