Cycles

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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

Cast: Stephanie Ingram, Zeinabu irene Davis, Marc Arthur Chéry, Doris Owanda Johnson

Director: Zeinabu irene Davis

Genres: Drama

Cast

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Stephanie Ingram

Rasheeda Allen

Zeinabu irene Davis

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Marc Arthur Chéry

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Doris Owanda Johnson

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