This is the website of Penny Lane, maker of things. The kind of things you might like, if you like that kind of thing.
OUR NIXON /// feature doc [in post production]
Forgotten Super 8 home movies filmed by Nixon's closest White House aides offer an intimate and suprising new view of his presidency. OFFICIAL FILM WEBSITE
NUTS! /// feature doc [in production]
John Richard Brinkley of Milford, Kansas became a household name in the early 1920s for curing impotence by transplanting goat testicles into men’s scrotums. From there, the story only gets more bizarre... VIEW/MORE
THE RULES OF EVIDENCE /// feature doc [in development]
Meta-documentary investigating how courts interpret motion pictures presented as evidence. OFFICIAL FILM WEBSITE
THE VOYAGERS /// 16:30 2010
A short film about two small spacecraft, an epic journey, taking risks and falling in love. Also Carl Sagan. VIEW/MORE
HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY /// 4:00 2010
This video will teach you how to write your own autobiography, with examples from the narrator's own life to guide you. VIEW/MORE
THE COMMONERS /// 12:30 2009 /// collaboration with Jessica Bardsley
THE COMMONERS is an essay film about Eugene Schieffelin's introduction of European Starlings to America in 1890, and what it means today. VIEW/MORE
SITTIN' ON A MILLION /// 26:30 2008 /// collaboration with Annmarie Lanesey
Mame Faye ran a world famous house of prostitution in Troy, New York for almost forty years (c. 1906 to 1941). Everyone past the age of retirement has a story - funny, sordid, unbelievable - about Troy's most famous madam. VIEW/MORE
SHE USED TO SEE HIM MOST WEEKENDS /// 4:00 2007
A short story about growing up, a certain love song, and the apocryphal memories of childhood. VIEW/MORE
MEN SEEKING WOMEN /// 4:30 2007
A random survey of personal ads one night on Craigslist opens up performative possibilities for a corporate tool. VIEW/MORE
THE WREN /// 4:00 2007 /// collaboration with Jessica Bardsley
A little essay about certain qualities shared by Emily Dickinson and Troglodytes troglodytes (the winter wren). VIEW/MORE
THE ABORTION DIARIES /// 30:00 2005
The Abortion Diaries gives voice to an important but silenced community: women who have had abortions. Over a million American women will have an abortion each year. The Abortion Diaries dispels the stigma of abortion by presenting the abortion stories of twelve diverse women. OFFICIAL FILM WEBSITE
WE ARE THE LITTLETONS /// 10:00 2004
We Are The Littletons presents a tangled web of found objects, intercepted correspondences, reenactments and total fabrications centered around Eve Littleton, an artist with "movie star good looks" who was mysteriously banished from her postcard-perfect American family. VIEW/MORE
NOBODY LISTENS TO A HYSTERICAL WOMAN /// 1:00 2007 /// with Jesse Stiles
One minute horror film. VIEW/MORE
INDEPENDENT MEDIA IN A TIME OF WAR /// 28:30 2003 /// with Hudson Mohawk Indymedia
Part scathing critique, part call to action, Independent Media In A Time Of War argues that dialogue is vital to a healthy democracy. VIEW/MORE
KITSCH IS A BEAUTIFUL LIE /// 1:48 2004
A spinning Day of the Dead diorama emerges in my imagination in the midst of a pro-choice rally. I listen to pro-choicers and pro-lifers scream at each other, chant slogans, and try to drown one another out. VIEW/MORE
FAMOUS LUNCH 03.28.05 9PM /// 2:10
2005 /// with Thom Stylinski
Tape one of an imaginative surveillance series I may one day finish. VIEW/MORE
SOMETIMES I GET LOST /// 1:07 2005
Is this what "lossy" means? This is what happens when you spend all your time in front of a fucking computer. VIEW/MORE
CONNECT /// 1:00 2002
Fragments of a smile, a glance, and a spoken word repeat and degenerate to the sound of an empty signal feeding back. A little thing about intersubjective experience and video compression.VIEW/MORE