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Kathy, una tenaz miembro de los Vandals que está casada con un ciclista salvaje e imprudente llamado Benny, relata la evolución de los Vandals a lo largo de una década, comenzando como un club local de forasteros unidos por los buenos tiempos, las bicicletas ruidosas y el respeto. por su fuerte y firme líder Johnny. A lo largo de los años, Kathy hace todo lo posible para navegar la naturaleza indómita de su marido y su lealtad a Johnny, con quien siente que debe competir por la atención de Benny. A medida que la vida en los Vandals se vuelve más peligrosa y el club amenaza con convertirse en una pandilla más siniestra, Kathy, Benny y Johnny se ven obligados a tomar decisiones sobre su lealtad al club y entre ellos.
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Danny Lyon's SNCC (2020), brings together hundreds of never-before-seen black-and-white photographs made by Lyon during the years that he was employed as the staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC. Beginning in 1962 in Cairo, Illinois when Lyon, then a University of Chicago student, met John Lewis, Freedom Rider, the film traces the story of their friendship alongside the ongoing struggle for civil rights in the United States. The images are layered with archival audio recordings of speeches by and conversations with Lewis, Julian Bond, and Dotty Zellner, among others, as well as freedom songs that were recorded by Alan Ribback in churches and meetings in Atlanta in the 1960s and recently rediscovered by Lyon.
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In the summer of 1963 15,000 African Americans are arrested across the South. Many of the protesters are high school students. In southwest Georgia fifteen high school girls are held in the Leesburg Stockade. Some are there for two months.
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The prequel to Lyon’s Born to Film and Two Fathers, his two previous “family” films, this film covers the years 1942-56. Shot entirely on 8mm by Lyon’s father, Dr. Ernst F. Lyon, the remarkable footage was edited by Lyon in 2016. Beginning in 1942, the footage documents the artist’s birth and his father’s departure to Utah during WWII. The great blizzard of 1946 is shown in Queens, as is the 1950 LIRR Thanksgiving railroad crash, an event witnessed by Lyon as a child, and shown here via Fox News footage. Ends with the artist at 14, as his father films his grandfather’s 80th birthday party. “Opa” walks off with a cane, an homage to Chaplin, and ending with the only close-up in the film, a yellow rose.
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A follow-up to the “New Mexico trilogy” – Lyon revisiting some of the subjects of his past work, in particular the family of Willie Jaramillo, who first appeared in Lyon’s Llanito (1971) and later became the protagonist of the feature-length documentary, Willie (1985). Willie died in the Sandoval County jail in Bernalillo in 1992, and here his family members and friends – including Willie’s younger brother Ferney, Ferney’s friend Dennis Baca, his sister Gloria, and his niece Janice – speak candidly and emotionally about Willie, and about the tragedies and struggles of their own lives
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A conversation with Julian Bond and Congressman John Lewis January 8th and 9th, 2013
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As more and more Americans become robots, Lyon searches for the soul of Amerika, and finds this....
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Filmed and recorded by Danny Lyon, and edited by Anne Barliant, Murderers tells the story of five murderers in three different states.
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The child star of BORN TO FILM, Raphael, is now a twenty-seven year old who returns to his fathers farm to plant corn and “experience fatherhood”. Intercut as a film that takes place in the world of Germany in the 1920’s, and Queens, of the 1940’s, as Dr. Ernst Lyon’s remarkable album photographs bring to life worlds long gone. Time is collapsed. “Two Fathers” is a filmic meditation on life, age, family and death.
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“Danny and Nancy Lyon’s ‘Media Man’ is a documentary in search of the truth. . . totally honest and very funny.” - Phillip Brockman, Curator of Media Arts, The Concoran Gallery of Art
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Willie es la tercera y última película de Lyon filmada en Bernalillo con Willie Jaramillo. Más preocupado con el destino de su amigo que en Little Boy y en Llanito, Lyon entra en las prisiones y comisarías donde Willie o sus amigos de infancia han cumplido condena. Observando y entrevistando a Willie y a sus hermanos, a sus compañeros de prisión, a los alcaides y a cualquiera en su círculo de conocidos, como si en algún lugar existiese una pista que explicase los problemas interminables que le persiguen sin compasión y que parecen haberse apoderado de su suerte.
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A family album from the visionary photojournalist Danny Lyon traces three generations of image-makers.
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A Comedy in which the artist's voice has been replaced by Gene Autry's. Lyon's homage to his friend, sculptor Mark di Suvero. From footage shot in 1965 and 1975.
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El otro lado fue filmado en los campos de cítricos del condado de Maricopa, una vasta area agrícola cercana a Phoenix, en EEUU. En ella se nos presenta a la familia Garey a la que Lyon filma en su hogar en México. El cruce ilegal de la frontera es una reconstrucción en la que trabajadores ilegales escenifican su entrada ilegal en los Estados Unidos.
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Named for the atomic bomb built in New Mexico and dropped on Hiroshima, this is Lyon’s portrait of late-70s New Mexico – a look beneath the Sunbelt.
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En 1975 Danny Lyon viajó a Colombia y realizó una película impasible aunque llena de lirismo, dedicada a la creciente población de niños sin hogar, viviendo en las calles, abandonados por sus familias e ignorados tanto por la Iglesia como por el Estado. Guiado por su diestra mirada de fotógrafo, Lyon captura las crudas paradojas de una sociedad adulta que elude a los niños olvidados, quienes simbolizan precisamente todo aquello que los adultos más temen y niegan: la pobreza y la desolación.
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El Mojado focuses on an undocumented worker from rural Chihuahua whom Lyon came to regard as “a genius.” Every spring Lyon would meet him near the border and smuggle him past the border patrol into the United States. Eddie introduced Lyon to the whole unbelievable world of “illegal aliens.”
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Llanito es la primera película de su trilogía filmada en Bernalillo, Nuevo México, y es también el debut en la pantalla de Willie Jaramillo. Él es el centro de un grupo de jóvenes con quienes Lyon mantuvo la amistad y cuyas vidas documentó en las siguientes décadas. La película deambula por la ciudad y entre sus habitantes, a veces con el agudo instinto de un águila del desierto y otras con un estupor beodo, tropezando de una escena a otra con la inevitabilidad visceral e irracional de la atracción gravitatoria.
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Filmado en Houston, Texas, en 1969, la primera película de Lyon Soc. Sci. 127 trata sobre un excéntrico tatuador que bebe, fuma y que se aferra a una cosmovisión caótica hecha de opiniones aleatorias sobre todas las cosas, desde la reveladora etimología de la palabra felación a sus propias motivaciones para hacer una película documental.
