This Light is Fire, Too

This Light is not only a Light, its Fire Too is a portrait of bodies moving in a moving vessel, somewhere between Miami and the Caribbean. At an indeterminate point in the ocean, somehow an undefined space transforms into a Black space. The image becomes a testament of how Blackness manifests in freefall. This is Blackness here, anywhere, and nowhere.



Black women as protagonists, subjects, and objects. They are both specific and representative. Women who command the space with their bodies, activating it through their energy. Their unspoken language offers an honest display of cultural connectivity, unbound by geography, like an image disconnected from sound.







Inseparable from this scene, is the history of Black bodies transported along this very route as cargo. The film strives to create an alternate after-image. Their exuberance, the celebration in their bodies, complicate the history that defined this passage.