Colgate Professor Penny Lane
The San Francisco Chronicle writes: It’s a documentarian’s job to depict reality and truth. But what if the reality itself is in question? That was the conundrum filmmaker Penny Lane — her real name — faced when putting together her found-footage documentary “The Pain of Others,” which profiles three women suffering from Morgellons disease, a condition that causes skin lesions and sores, which often produce mysterious fibers or even bugs.