LYNCH: A HISTORY
[Dir. David Shields]
Official trailer via YouTube
About the film
Lynch: A History explores the silence that nonconformist NFL star Marshawn Lynch deploys as a form of resistance. Culling more than 700 video clips and placing them in dramatic, rapid, and radical juxtaposition, the film is a powerful political parable about the American media-sports complex and its deep complicity with racial oppression.
Watch the full film here.
Praise
“Lynch feels like the culmination of Shields’s career. Lynch is loosely chronological, yet it’s propelled by a free-associative rhythm that the viewer slowly settles into. . . Relying on found footage gives Lynch an aura of unscripted authenticity. . . . Shields’s drifting approach allows him to make persuasive and even moving arguments that proceed by accumulation and association rather than by simple exposition. . . . edited together from a dizzying range of sources. . . . Lynch requires you to make sense of how seven hundred clips—some of them very disturbing—piece together.” —Hua Hsu, The New Yorker
“A breathtaking look at race, masculinity, media, and protest at the turn of the millennium.” —Sara Rosen, Huck Magazine