PENNIES

Directed by

Katherine Maxwell

United States

Pennies portrays the complexities and challenges found within partnership.

Pennies comes from ‘a sigh of origin’, a 40-minute film situated within an aging psyche, exploring how the brain and body store memory beyond the conscious mind. This work is inspired by time spent between the director and her grandmother, who has late-stage dementia. In developing this work, Maxwell researched neuroscience, neuroplasticity, and epigenetics to further understand how the brain and body store memory beyond the conscious mind.