Penny Lane is My Real Name is a newsletter about making art and making a living in documentary film.
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The art of escapology
Hello friends,
I’m writing this on Halloween 2026, exactly one hundred years after the death of “The World’s Handcuff King and Prison Breaker” Harry Houdini.
When doctors told him he had severe peritonitis and needed to stop performing a...
‘You Can See Everything’ knows what you want
One of my earliest social memories is being on the playground at recess, standing bravely athwart 5th-grade-girl-in-1989 consensus to state, “Actually… New Kids on the Block isn’t that good,” to stunned stares of shock, annoyance and horror...
Building the first assembly cut
The first assembly cut is a mysterious and often ugly beast. Here is how (and why) to build one, what to learn from it, and why it’s okay if watching it makes you feel ill.
Hello friends,
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?”...
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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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