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

Cast

Stephanie Ingram

Rasheeda Allen

Zeinabu irene Davis

Dream character

Marc Arthur Chéry

Doris Owanda Johnson

Crew

Zeinabu irene Davis

Director

Doris Owanda Johnson

Writer

Zeinabu irene Davis

Producer

Zeinabu irene Davis

Editor

Pierre Désir

Director of Photography

Nietzchka Keene

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