Quote:
"As film-maker, [Frances-Anne] Solomon takes certain key ideas from the words and phrases in the collection [I Is A Long Memoried Woman by Grace Nichols], such as travel in space, and memory, and spirit, in order to release the potential inherent in the poetry. She further intensifies these through the camera's focus on the Black body. This body, as the film progresses, takes on a chameleon-like expressive force as it combines with other images and sounds. The word 'is' as in the creole construction 'I is' is accessed for its sense of embodiment of all women, a kind of 'essence' of the female spirit that the poem uses in its movement across time as the speaker becomes every African Caribbean woman who is the product of enslavement and enforced exile."
-- Jean Antoine-Dunne

Source:
Antoine-Dunne, Jean. "Words Are Not Enough." Journal of West Indian Literature 25, no. 2 (2017). (p. 53)