International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

Common Threads, Stories from the Quilt

Jeffrey Friedman, Robert Epstein, USA, 1989

IDFA

Synopsis

A portrait of the IADS-epidemic in the United States, through five different life stories, represented in the AIDS Memorial Quilt. The five handmade spreads in this enormous patchwork construction link highly personal stories abuot people who have died of AIDS. The five stories are interwoven with news reels depicting the alarming growth of the epidemic: it has developed from a marginal phenomenon in the gay scene to a catastrophe that can no longer be ignored. It is also an indictment against the government for having stood by doing nothing instead of actively taking action against the disease.

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Credits

Director
Robert Epstein
Jeffrey Friedman
Cinematography
Dyanna Taylor
Jean de Segonzac
Screenplay
Robert Epstein
Jeffrey Friedman
Cindy Ruskin
Editing
Jeffrey Friedman
Robert Epstein
Sound
John Haptas
Music
Bobby McFerrin
Narrator
Dustin Hoffman
Production
Robert Epstein
Bill Couturié
Jeffrey Friedman

Selected for

IDFA 1990
IDFA 1994

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