THE TALK | Ava DuVernay on ‘Origins’ Book Burning Scene; Says Right Now ‘We’re experiencing a book banning’
Monday on “The Talk” Ava DuVernay shares why she chose the historical Nazi Germany book burning scene in “Origin.” “
I think we need to be talking about it. In the film we say — ideas, information, history being lost and that’s a book burning but right now we’re experiencing book banning. And so, this is the same thing, when you are taking knowledge off the shelves, and you’re keeping knowledge and history from people. When we actually have people and politicians, denying history, denying that things even happened. We have to stand up and raise our voices against it.”
On shooting this scene, DuVernay reveals, “We shot that in the real location. The cobblestone they were standing on was the real cobblestone that was there decades before where this book burning actually happened. My producing partner, Paul Garnes and I somehow got permission from the Berlin officials to allow us to recreate it, so I’m very grateful.”
THE TALK | Ava DuVernay: ‘All the ‘isms’ sit on top of this thing called caste’
Ava DuVernay opens up about her film ‘Origins’ and highlights the caste system. “It is saying there is unifying principal to the reason why we’re all separated. We don’t talk about it. And the word for it is caste.
I wasn’t familiar with it either. I only knew it in the context of Indian history and culture but to bring that into the American context — into Jewish history, South American history, into European history. all the ways in which our divisions are animated by this idea of caste. And caste is the idea that someone needs to be higher than someone else… whether it’s racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, ageism, ableism, all the “isms” sit on top of this thing called caste.”
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