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Born to Film Danny Lyon Born to Film, 1982, New York and Mexico, b&w, 33 minutes, a young boy emerges from the filmic history of his past. "'Born to
Film' is, among other things, intimately autobiographical, interspersing
footage of Lyon's own young son with film shot in the 1930's by
Lyon's father, a doctor who immigrated from Germany. . . Lyon's
passionate vision has deepened and grown in resonance and the
film is not just family or even social history, but about human
continuity, the power of instinct to survive, the grace that love
and play bring to it, the wonder of being alive." ". .
. in his relationship with his father and son in Born To Film,
Lyon serves as a connecting link, collaging together separate
lives. The disparate, often incoherent or contradictory images
are presented with a passion and directness which gives them reality.
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