Cycles

• Movies
• 1989-01-01
• EN
• Released
• 0h 17m
• US
• Drama

• 6.5
• 2

Production

UCLA School of Film and Television

Storyline

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