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The Pain of Others Details
- Year of Production: 2018
- Length: 68 minutes
- Color: Color
- Screening Format: Digital
- Language: English
- Screens with: The Water Slide
About the Film
Penny Lane will attend in person for discussion with Ty Burr, film critic for the Boston Globe.
The Pain of Others is a YouTube compilation film about Morgellons, a mysterious illness whose sufferers say they have parasites under the skin, long colored fibers emerging from lesions, and a host of other bizarre symptoms which sound borrowed from a horror film. The film carefully sets up a space of unsettling encounter with a group of “Morgies” who have turned to YouTube to find help and to prove they’re not crazy. Intimate and unflinching, disturbing and at times funny – The Pain of Others attempts an act of radical empathy.
Official Selection of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, BAMcinemaFest, Sheffield Doc/Fest, SF DocFest, Sarasota Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, and BAFICI
About the Filmmakers
Penny Lane Director
Penny Lane is an award-winning nonfiction filmmaker who was named one of Filmmaker Magazine‘s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” and a Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Award winner. Her most recent feature-length documentary, NUTS! premiered at Sundance 2016, where it won a Special Jury Award for Editing. It has since screened at many other film festivals such as Hot Docs, […] Read More
Screens with: The Water Slide
The Water Slide Details
- Year of Production: 2018
- Length: 10 minutes
- Color: Color
- Screening Format: Digital
- Language:
About the Film
Tragedy strikes the World’s Tallest Waterslide.
About the Filmmakers
Nathan Truesdell Director
Nathan Truesdell has more than a decade of documentary experience and was selected for the inaugural DOC NYC 40 Under 40 list. His directorial work includes the award-winning Balloonfest, The Water Slide, the Field of Vision-produced series “The Art Of Making Money,” and It’s Coming! He was the camera department head for the HBO series “How To with John Wilson” (2020), executive produced by Nathan Fielder. Truesdell was the main cinematographer on Speaking Is Difficult and a producer of Peace In The Valley, both premiering in the shorts competition at Sundance 2016. He produced documentaries such as We Always Lie To Strangers (SXSW, 2013), Caucus (Hot Docs, 2013), and Convention (LAFF, 2010), and co-produced The Gospel Of Eureka (SXSW, 2018). Truesdell was DOP for the Al Jazeera America series “Midterms.” He was a cinematographer on Dope Is Death (True/False, 2020), shot Deprogrammed (Tribeca, 2015), and was a cinematographer and editor on Killing Them Safely (Tribeca, 2015). He also served as art director for the narrative film You’re Next (TIFF, 2011). At MacDowell, he collaborated with Jessica Kingdon on an upcoming feature documentary Ascension (previously Untitled Prc Project) has received support from organizations including SFFilm, Chicken & Egg, Cinereach, Sundance, and Field of Vision, and was on Indiewire's Sundance Wishlist for 2021.
