Cycles (1989)

Cycles (1989)

Release Date: 1989, January 1
Directors: Zeinabu irene Davis
Countries: United States of America
Production: UCLA School of Film and Television
Cast: Stephanie Ingram

Overview:

As a woman anxiously awaits her overdue period, she performs African-based rituals of purification. She cleans house and body, and calls on the spirits (Orishas in the Yoruba tradition), receiving much needed inspiration and assurance in a dream. The film combines beautifully intimate still and moving images of the woman’s body and home space, along with playful stop-motion sequences. —Jacqueline Stewart, UCLA Film and Television Archive