Movies at the MAC: Common Threads

Movies at the MAC
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Wednesday, February 11 at 7:00pm

in the MAC’s Anne Braitmayer Webb Theater

$5 per person, Recommended for ages 13 and up

Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman • 1989 • United States

A tremendous, handmade monument to lives lost to AIDS, the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt demonstrated that grief and activism together could forge a powerful symbol of resilience. Winner of the Academy Award for best documentary feature, this moving film—buoyed by an original all-vocal score by Bobby McFerrin—explores the human stories obscured by statistics, examining the cross section of identities affected by HIV/AIDS, as well as efforts to combat the stigma, misinformation, and political obstruction that deepened the crisis.

History will record that in the last quarter of the 20th century a new and deadly virus emerged and that the one nation on earth with the resources, knowledge, and institutions to respond to the epidemic failed to do so. History will further record that our nation’s failure was based on ignorance, prejudice, greed and fear not in the heartlands of America but within the oval office and the halls of Congress.
— Cleve Jones, The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt

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