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245 00 Liberty :|b3 Stories about Life & Death.
264 1 [San Francisco, California, USA] :|bKanopy Streaming,
|c2015.
300 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 55 min.)
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500 Title from title frames.
518 Originally produced by New Day Films in 2003.
520 Liberty explores the deep connections in a circle of
lesbian friends as they face death and celebrate life and
love. Viewers say Liberty has documented the meaning of
community with rare grace and wit. It is not a wimpy,
weepy tale by a mile, but a keen celebration of family
values. Liberty demystifies death, dispels misinformation
about age and sexual orientation, and reminds us how rich
life is, even in the shadow of death. Part One: Death to
Life records the death of Joyce Fulton, 66. In the opening
scenes, we see her, wasted, beyond speech, with a group of
friends around her who are helping her out of this world.
Moving backwards in time, we then observe the process of
Joyce's terminal brain cancer over the course of two
years. In a sense, we see Joyce moving from sick to well,
becoming the person she was on the day she celebrated
retiring from teaching high school four years earlier.
Part Two: Life to Death is a reminiscence of Mary Bell
Wilson, 79, described by one of her friends as "a
Katherine Hepburn type." She is a long time friend of
Joyce Fulton, and Joyce reappears several times in Life to
Death. Before Mary Bell dies, she has high hopes of
building a new home with her lover and partner of 25 years
and of riding in Dykes on Bikes in the San Francisco Gay
Pride Parade. With indefatigable courage, she faces up to
her own losing struggle with lymphoma. Part Three: Life is
about Nan Golub, a close friend of both Joyce and Mary
Bell. In New York, in winter, we see her living as an
artist -- a black-leather-jacketed, platinum-dyed city
woman. In one sequence she sketches a family tree of the
women we've met earlier and suddenly we have a more vivid
idea of who they were and what they've meant to each
other. Golub ties the three parts of the documentary
together and reminds us that in spite of tragedy and death,
life is worth living, even worth celebrating.
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