Life Doesn’t Frighten Me: An Exhibiting Forgiveness Review

It’s difficult to see the bigger picture from inside of the frame. Exhibiting Forgiveness, Titus Kaphar’s brilliant work of difficult truths creates a cutout of shared emotional burdens for audiences to insert themselves into— it pulls back the rug on all of the familial things we thought we healed from, reminding us that healing isn’t linear. Exhibiting Forgiveness is a thoughtfully scripted and delicately executed vision of shared emotional experiences where the through line runs across a range of emotions that make perfect sense and no sense simultaneously.

Film ReviewKimolee ErynOctober 27, 2024Film, Film Review, Exhibiting ForgivenessComment

A Single Mass: An Origin Review

The delicate coating of truths outlined in Origin, Director Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste, gives life to the notion that “race is not where the line is drawn.” Wilkerson’s work weaves together the atrocities imposed on Jews at the hand of Nazi Germany, the plight of India’s Dalit, and the lives of descendants of Africa in America in a way that we’ve never seen done before. DuVernay gives visual life to these truths that we’ve all known, in a way that will be branded in our hearts and minds forever.

Film ReviewKimolee ErynMarch 24, 2024Origin, Film, Film Review, Ava DuVernayComment