Danny Lyon:
Filmar contra os procedementos de exclusión / Filming Against Exclusion Procedures
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s desprazados. Notas sobre os filmes de Danny Lyon.
Prefiro dar a este texto a aparencia de notas tomadas en limpo, pero conservando o seu carácter espontáneo. Aquí paréceme imposible facer outra cousa: ao cabo, sei demasiado pouco sobre o cinema de Danny Lyon, non sei nada dos modos de produción que lle permitiron realizar tantas películas nun período de vinte e cinco anos, e tampouco sei nada sobre a súa forma de distribución (redes de televisión por cable?, circuíto militante?). E a documentación (esencialmente
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©Jack Foley / Danny and Nancy Lyon in the Penitentiary of New Mexico, 1985
Primeira retrospectiva internacional / First International Retrospective
he Displaced. Notes on Danny Lyon’s Films.
I prefer to give this text the appearance of notes taken neatly, but retaining their spontaneity. It seems impossible to me to do otherwise here: in the end, I know just too little about Danny Lyon's cinema, nothing about the modes of production that have allowed him to make so many films over a period of twenty-five years, and nothing about their mode of distribution either (cable TV networks?, a militant circuit?). And there is a lack of documentation (which is essentially
