Cycles
7.2
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
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Zeinabu irene Davis Director · Doris Owanda Johnson Writer Pierre Désir Cinematographer
United States release January 1, 1989 · Produced in United States
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UCLA School of Film and Television
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United States
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Original language
English
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English
Release dates
United States · January 1, 1989
Theatrical
United States · January 1, 2021
Digital · The Criterion Channel
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