ORIGIN
Directed by Ava DuVernay
Origin is an extraordinary film which is part-biopic, part-love story, but mostly a socio-political essay. It recounts the academic and personal journey of African-American author Isabel Wilkerson to a fascinating and courageous hypothesis that argues for the reframing of critical race theory in America.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Wilkerson (aPrompted by the 2012 murder of black teenager Trayvon Martin, Wilkerson argued that race issues in the US were not down to “racism” as we consider it, but that in fact several places around the world have historically oppressed peoples on the basis of social stratification, specifically caste.
