Cycles
Release Date: 1989-01-01
Runtime: 17 min
Genre(s): Drama
Director: Zeinabu irene Davis
Producer(s): Zeinabu irene Davis
Production Country: United States of America
Original Language: English
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
Crew:
Zeinabu irene Davis (Director), Zeinabu irene Davis (Editor), Doris Owanda Johnson (Writer), Pierre Désir (Director of Photography), Zeinabu irene Davis (Producer), Nietzchka Keene (Other)