Film
The Pain of Others + The Water Slide
- 9:30PM
It begins with crawling sensations beneath the skin. Sores erupt. Then wiry, multicolored fibers sprout forth from the lesions—seemingly the outgrowths of an alien parasite. It’s called Morgellons disease and thousands around the world purport to suffer from it. The problem: the medical community at large says it isn’t real, attributing the epidemic to psychosomatic delusion spread by internet-fueled paranoia. In this provocative found-footage work, director Penny Lane assembles clips from YouTube videos uploaded by people who believe they are afflicted: wrenching face-to-face encounters with anguish both physical and mental. The result is a chilling deep dive into mass hysteria in the internet age.
Q&A with Penny Lane
Dir. Nathan Truesdell
2018, 9min
News clips and promotional videos tell the chilling story of how the building of an amusement park water slide led to an American tragedy.
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