Penny Lane is My Real Name is a newsletter about making art and making a living in documentary film.
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A story’s as much garden as song
“we often think of narrative as a temporal art, experienced in time like music, but it’s visual, too;
a story’s as much garden as song.”
— Jane Alison
In my 20s, two women — Maria and Branda — were my most important creative me...
“Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”
The myth of the Great (Male) Artist is not going anywhere -- and it’s got me asking uncomfortable questions about my own ambition.
In 1971, the art historian Linda Nochlin wrote an essay called “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”...
How to fuck around and find out
How good is that doc idea, really?
It’s an uncomfortable question to ask about a project you’re already excited about.
But trust me: it only gets more uncomfortable the more you’ve invested in it.
That’s why I love this practical evalu...
The art of (not) getting access
What I learned from trying — and failing — to get access to Raygun, Lynda Barry & Matt Groening, and Stephen King.
I watched the Raygun doc on Netflix this weekend. It was fine. The story — its characters, world and stakes — has a lot goin...
You Can’t Gift-wrap a Link
Greetings friends,
This morning, at Stonykill Coffee and Records in Chatham, New York, I bought a used hardcover copy of Paul Theroux’s The Mosquito Coast. It’s a searing, hilarious, shocking novel I first read as a teenager — after watchi...
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Making art and making a living in documentary film. I choose to LOL. I've directed 8 feature docs including WILD INSIDE, LISTENING TO KENNY G, NUTS! and HAIL SATAN? I am also a sought-after consultant and educator.
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