Golden Threads
Name/Title
Golden ThreadsEntry/Object ID
2024.1.9Tags
Aging, Feminism, AdvocacyDescription
The story of the founding of Golden Threads, featuring founder Christine Burton, with footage of the summer Golden Threads events in progress. 2 copies.Context
Forty-five-year-old filmmaker Lucy Winer was in the midst of a virulent midlife crisis when she began filming 90-year-old Christine Burton, an independent-minded community organizer who, at the age of eighty, founded Golden Threads, a global networking service for lesbians over fifty. Golden Threads, an hour-long documentary directed and written by Lucy Winer and produced by Karen Eaton and Winer, affectionately profiles Burton's unconventional life as it exuberantly overturns our most deeply rooted stereotypes and fears of aging. Playfully interweaving documentary and first-person diary entries, with quirky and inventive animation techniques, Golden Threads generates a groundbreaking, intergenerational dialogue about intimacy, life choices, and what it means to grow old in America, at a time when the media commonly sentimentalizes, dismisses, or altogether ignores the aging.Category
Film/Video, VHS