A Radical Thread
Set against the dramatic scars of 19th century hydraulic gold mining, A RADICAL THREAD follows a Sierra Foothills back-to-the-land community as they invent national models of sustainability in their fight against the corporate goliaths of mining, logging and damming. The community's 17-year collaborative project stitching an 83-foot tapestry visualizes the Ridge's story in twelve narrative embroidered panels. Now, as they face their greatest threat of all, climate-driven wildfires, they pass their knowledge to the next generation.
70 minutes
Directed by Jeanne C. Finley
"Told through fabric and film, A Radical Thread is a visually sumptuous exploration of how a place shapes its people, and vice versa. Plumbing the highlights and heartbreaks that result from reinhabitation, it shares hard-won insights into how other communities can approach their own climate-breakdown future." —Peter Friederici, Professor of Sustainable Communities, Northern Arizona University, Author, Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope