Q What drives you to tell stories that provoke and inspire?
When I discovered you can use art to transmit ideas, my initial impulse was to do work that would have a reaction in the social space. When you read about Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King and Stokely Carmichael, you get a sense that these guys were etching out bits and pieces of freedom… and they did so by engaging in a conversation with the society and the times that they lived in. I see filmmaking as a means of doing something similar, where you inject certain ideas to make people think about what life and freedom really is.
Q Tell us about your latest film Madulu, The Seaman.
It came from recognising a cultural degeneration happening on the islands. Growing up, I felt as if the culture was unique because it was growing in a sort of isolated way. But since the advent of global media, the culture on St Vincent has become a lot like the culture in any other place. Cultural theorist Stuart Hall said that Caribbean identity is fluid, but there are certain things called ‘floating signifiers’ that always point back to the origins of the region and hence connect us. I think there are things in the old way of island life that were essential and unique. I like to confront stories in these spaces to make people think.
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