Zeinabu Davis received her undergrad from Brown University and her MFA in film and video production from UCLA. She has since worked in narrative, experimental and documentary filmmaking. Davis describes her Black Feminist or Womanist art and story-telling lens, as "developing a new genre that constitutes a black aesthetic". Such films include "Cycles" 1989, a 16mm experimental film about Rasheeda Allen, a young girl anticipating her first period, it is "drawing on Caribbean folklore, this exuberant experimental drama uses animation and live action to discover a film language unique to African American women. The multilayered soundtrack combines a chorus of women's voices with the music of Africa and the diaspora-including Miriam Makeba, acappella singers from Haiti and trumpetiste Clora Bryant"
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