Movie

Cycles (1989)

• January 1, 1989
• 17m

• Drama

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

Director

Zeinabu irene Davis

Writers

Doris Owanda Johnson

Starring

Stephanie Ingram, Zeinabu irene Davis, Marc Arthur Chéry