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Open City Documentary Festival: The Short Films of Penny Lane + Q&A at BFI Southbank

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Time 14:00
Date 09/09/18
Price £16.5

Discover the distinctive, entertaining and provocative works of award-winning US filmmaker whose work combines archive, found materials and sound recordings. Plus, an extended Q&A with Penny herself.

Open City Documentary Festival presents a programme of the short films of Penny Lane, an award-winning American filmmaker who works in the periphery of non-fiction storytelling. Her films combine archive, found-materials and sound recordings to pose questions around authorship and authenticity throughout history. With an extended Q&A, this screening offers a rare opportunity to see Lane’s short-form work – distinctive, entertaining and provocative in equal measure.

Shorts:
We Are The Littletons | Penny Lane | 2004 | USA | 10’
Men Seeking Women | Penny Lane | 2007 | USA | 4’
She Used to See Him Most Weekends | Penny Lane | 2007 | USA | 4’
How to Write an Autobiography | Penny Lane | 2010 | USA | 4’
The Voyagers | Penny Lane | 2010 | USA | 17’
The Silent Majority | Penny Lane & Brian L. Frye | 2011 | USA | 4’
Normal Appearances | Penny Lane | 2018 | USA | 5’
Nellie Bly Makes the News | Penny Lane | 2018 | USA | 23’

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COMPETITION: Win 1x pair of tickets to attend Open City Documentary Festival: The Short Films of Penny Lane + Q&A at BFI Southbank at 13:00 on Sunday 09 September. To enter the competition, send an email to vienna@run-riot.com with the correct answer in the ‘subject’ line. The winner will be randomly selected.

Q: Not to be confused with a groupie, a Beatles song or a street in England, 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. The question is... What is the name of Penny Lane's most recent feature-length documentary?
A: .1) The Pain of Others .2) NUTS! .3) She Used To See Him Most Weekends .4) Just Add Water: The Story of the Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys

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