Everything Comes from the Streets Trailer

Everything Comes from the Streets traces the origins and history of lowriding in San Diego, California, and the borderlands. The one-hour documentary features the men and women who pioneered and shaped the movement defined by self-expression and cultural ingenuity. It captures the stories of car craftsmen who were among the first to experiment with lowering and custom painting cars in the 1950s; later generations of lowriders who used old airplane hydraulic parts to modify their cars; and some of the first women lowriders who organized their own car clubs. Everything Comes from the Streets is also the first documentary to highlight car customizers in Tijuana, Mexico, who were integral in the evolution of lowriding. The story traverses politics, self-preservation, and the emergence of critical spaces, and dispels mainstream beliefs that lowriding is tied to “gang-banging” and violence. Instead, the film explores how lowrider car clubs are an extension of families that affirm and build communities in the colorful and complex fabric of the borderlands of the American Southwest. Everything Comes from the Streets draws on intimate interviews, along with rare old home movies, photographs and archival footage unearthed in the making of the film, to present an engaging and rich story covering nearly 30 years of lowriding from the 1950s to early 1980s.
Directed by Alberto López Pulido
Produced by Alberto López Pulido, Rigo Reyes and Kelly Whalen