Cycles Zeinabu irene Davis, 1989

As a woman anxiously awaits her overdue period, she performs Africanbased 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 womans body and home space, along with playful stopmotion sequences. Jacqueline Stewart