Screening & Live Event
The Pain of Others (with Penny Lane in person)
Part of
The New Genres: Video in the Internet Age
Saturday, August 18, 2018, 4:00 p.m.
Museum of the Moving Image - KAS Zukor Theater
Saturday, August 18, 2018, 4:00 p.m.
Museum of the Moving Image - KAS Zukor Theater
Please note: After purchasing/picking up your ticket at the Museum's front desk, please go to The Zukor Theater at Kaufman Astoria Studios, 34-12 36 St (enter on 35 St, between 34 and 35 Ave). This theater is without handicap accessible ramps.
This is presented as a double-feature alongside Fraud. A single ticket to either film
grants entry to both.
grants entry to both.
With director Penny Lane in person
Dir. Penny Lane. 2018. 71 mins. Digital Projection. Entirely sourced from first-person YouTube videos, the latest mind-bender from award-winning documentarian Penny Lane is at once a body horror film and a radical act of empathy. Lane tunnels down the online rabbit hole of people suffering from Morgellons, a mysterious skin illness with bizarre symptoms from which tens of thousands claim to suffer, but which the mainstream medical community claims isn't a real physical condition. The film focuses on the diaristic testimonies of three women who've sought explanations and support from a community of strangers. While the speculations and assertions they pass among themselves may vary in plausibility, the pain they're experiencing seems frightfully real—and as subjective as suffering itself.
Preceded by: Normal Appearances (Dir. Penny Lane, 2018, 5 mins). Lane remixes footage from TV's The Bachelor to focus on the ambiguous gestures of female contestants hyperconscious of our gaze.
Preceded by: Normal Appearances (Dir. Penny Lane, 2018, 5 mins). Lane remixes footage from TV's The Bachelor to focus on the ambiguous gestures of female contestants hyperconscious of our gaze.
Tickets: $15 ($11 seniors and students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / free for children under 3 and Museum members at the Film Lover and Kids Premium levels and above). Order tickets online. (Members may contact [email protected] with questions regarding online reservations.)
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