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Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)
Director: Rob Epstein
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Sara Lewinstein, David Mandell, Suzi Mandell
Runtime80 min
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On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memorialized, director Robert Epstein focuses on the lives of six people. Alongside the intimate profiles offered, through news footage and interviews, Epstein puts the AIDS crisis in the larger context of social and government response to the disease.
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Fans of thoughtful, deeply human documentaries will appreciate the intimate profiles and powerful social commentary offered in Rob Epstein's 1989 film Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt. Centered on the AIDS crisis, the film poignantly memorializes those lost while contextualizing the disease's broader impact through news footage and interviews.
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Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt is a 1989 American documentary film that tells the story of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, with a musical score written and performed by Bobby McFerrin, the film focuses on several people who are represented by panels in the Quilt, combining personal reminiscences with archive footage of the subjects, along with footage of various politicians, health professionals and other people with AIDS. Each section of the film is punctuated with statistics detailing the number of Americans diagnosed with and dead from AIDS through the early years of the epidemic. The film ends with the first display of the complete Quilt at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., during the 1987 Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
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