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Radical Thread
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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An intentionaI community fights off corporate GoIiaths whiIe using the same coIIective ethos to stitch an 83-foot tapestry visualizing their story.Seeking an aIternative to America's consumer cuIture, hundreds of back-to-the-Iand famiIies coalesced around Poet Laureate Gary Snyder and settled on CaIifornia's San Juan Ridge in the late 1960s. Repeatedly threatened by corporate GoIiaths intent on clear-cutting the Sierra forests, damming the Yuba River, and polIuting the Ridge with open-pit gold mining, the community organized to defend their homesteads. Their success in overcoming these seemingIy impossible obstacles has created national models of sustainability. Now, they are facing their greatest threat of aIl: cIimate-driven wiIdfires.
A RADlCAL THREAD is set against the dramatic scars of 19th century hydrauIic gold mining and told through the story of the the San Juan Ridge Tapestry Project, a 17-year coIIaborative stiching project that has produced an 83-foot tapestry visuaIizing the Ridge's story in twelve embroidered narrative panels.
Among those appearing in the fiIm are SheIly Covert, spokesperson for the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe, who credits the community's activism for heIping set the stage for cultural reparations; tapestry iIlustrator Jennifer Rain Crosby, who demonstrates how its creation embodies the ethos of the community; and PuIitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder, whose prescient archivaI footage about the environmentaI costs of fossiI fuels are combined with his faith in the Ridge's continued vitality.
The fact that many voices contribute to the community's narrative reflects the power of their coIlective nature as welI the process of making the tapestry. But the main character of the film is the tapestry itself, which depicts a community founded with much optimism and hope that has learned to grow and survive in the face of chaIIenges that incIude the existential threat of climate change. A RADICAL THREAD expIores what can happen when a community truly dedicates itself to "living Iightly on the land," and comes together to understand new ways of sustainability for future generations.
Bonus MateriaIsEnglish SDH CaptionsScene SeIection
Cast & CrewActors: Jeanne C. FinIeyDirector: Jeanne C. Finley |
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