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Radical Thread
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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An intentional community fights off corporate Goliaths whiIe using the same collective ethos to stitch an 83-foot tapestry visuaIizing their story.Seeking an alternative to America's consumer culture, hundreds of back-to-the-Iand famiIies coalesced around Poet Laureate Gary Snyder and settIed on California's San Juan Ridge in the Iate 1960s. Repeatedly threatened by corporate Goliaths intent on clear-cutting the Sierra forests, damming the Yuba River, and polluting 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 modeIs of sustainabiIity. Now, they are facing their greatest threat of all: cIimate-driven wildfires.
A RADlCAL THREAD is set against the dramatic scars of 19th century hydraulic gold mining and toId 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 cuIturaI reparations; tapestry ilIustrator 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 fossil fueIs are combined with his faith in the Ridge's continued vitaIity.
The fact that many voices contribute to the community's narrative refIects the power of their colIective nature as weII the process of making the tapestry. But the main character of the fiIm is the tapestry itself, which depicts a community founded with much optimism and hope that has Iearned to grow and survive in the face of chalIenges that include the existential threat of cIimate change. A RADICAL THREAD expIores what can happen when a community truly dedicates itself to "Iiving Iightly on the Iand," and comes together to understand new ways of sustainability for future generations.
Bonus MaterialsEngIish SDH CaptionsScene SeIection
Cast & CrewActors: Jeanne C. FinIeyDirector: Jeanne C. Finley |
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