Donna Read (5)

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  Adam's World

  Donna Read 1989 19 min

  Intercut with illustrative stock footage, Adam's World present a short lecture by Elizabeth Dodson Gray, a feminist theologian, environmentalist, and futurist. She speaks to us about the severity of our global environmental crisis, and analyzes the root cause of this crisis as lying in the perceptions, beliefs, and assumptions of the patriarchal system we have inherited.
  
  Elizabeth Dodson Gray also offers a feminist perspective on language, and connects the vocabulary of feminized nature to the denigration of women in our culture. Citing such examples as "the exploitation of virgin resources" and "the rape of the earth," she analyzes the role of such language as well as that of male generic language in perpetuating our global crisis. Finally, she calls upon society to nurture the woman's point of view. For it is woman's care-giving capacities, affinity for the long-term future, and awareness of our interconnectedness with all species, that can help build a radically different ethic, and enable planet Earth to survive.
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  Le temps des bûchers

  Donna Read 1990 56 min

  Long métrage documentaire rendant hommage… aux sorcières. Celles d'hier, contre qui l'Église et l'État se sont acharnés, d'un commun accord; celles d'aujourd'hui, qui professent un retour à la connaissance de la déesse primitive, harmonie pacifique de toutes les formes de vie. Faisant suite à Sur les traces de la déesse, ce film constitue le deuxième volet d’une réflexion sur la spiritualité des femmes.
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  Sur les traces de la déesse

  Donna Read 1990 54 min

  Ce long métrage documentaire, qui donne la parole à des féministes érudites et militantes, est aussi un hommage aux géniteurs des civilisations occidentales pour qui le culte de la déesse semble avoir été au centre du système de valeurs modelant leur vie quotidienne. Par-delà 35 000 ans d'histoire, ces valeurs ont aujourd'hui une résonance particulière, car elles sont perçues par plusieurs comme seules garantes de notre survivance collective.
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  Goddess Remembered

  Donna Read 1989 54 min

  This documentary is a salute to 35,000 years of the goddess-worshipping religions of the ancient past. The film features Merlin Stone, Carol Christ, Luisah Teish and Jean Bolen, all of whom link the loss of goddess-centric societies with today's environmental crisis.
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  The Burning Times

  Donna Read 1990 56 min

  This documentary takes an in-depth look at the witch hunts that swept Europe just a few hundred years ago. False accusations and trials led to massive torture and burnings at the stake and ultimately to the destruction of an organic way of life. The film questions whether the widespread violence against women and the neglect of our environment today can be traced back to those times.