Amazon and eBay links may be affiliate links.
Adam's World is quite a curious piece. It’s a documentary, yes, but it feels more like a lecture wrapped in a visual essay. Elizabeth Dodson Gray delivers her thoughts with this earnest urgency, and she’s intercut with stock footage that, while dated, adds a layer of weight to her warnings about our environmental plight. The pacing is uneven—sometimes it feels like you're being pulled along by her passion, other times it’s almost meditative. The themes of feminism and environmentalism intertwining make for a distinctive lens on the crisis. It’s not flashy, but there’s a rawness in the presentation that really gets you thinking about the bigger picture. It’s definitely a product of its time, yet still eerily relevant today.
Unique blend of lecture and stock footage.Explores intersection of feminism and environmentalism.Reflects on 1980s concerns still relevant today.
Streaming data powered by JustWatch
Have you seen this?
Rate it and share your take with other collectors.
Discover
Key Crew
Donna Read
Director