Cycles

Cycles

17 mins | Drama | Jan. 1, 1989

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

Cycles

17 mins | Drama | Jan. 1, 1989

Cycles
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
Producers UCLA School of Film and Television
Original title Cycles
Directors Zeinabu irene Davis
Writers Doris Owanda Johnson

Cast

Stephanie Ingram

as Rasheeda Allen

Zeinabu irene Davis

as Dream character