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

• Zeinabu irene DavisDirector
• Doris Owanda JohnsonWriter

• Stephanie IngramRasheeda Allen
• Zeinabu irene DavisDream character
• Marc Arthur ChéryCast
• Doris Owanda JohnsonCast