by Emmy Award winning filmmaker, Roberta Cantow
with a musical score by Bronwen Jones
This three-part documentary work recontextualizes the experience of menstruation, blood, creativity
and power for women today. Complete trilogy to be released January, 2008.
- (The meanings and metaphors of blood) (30:00)
- (Honoring girls' entrance into womanhood) (33:00)
- (Art and ritual as transformative tools; women as agents of change) (62:00)
Provides a tapestry of contemporary ideas and practices that bespeak a need in the culture and in our times to
invest our most elemental experiences of ‘life passage’ with new meanings. Touches on themes with interdisciplinary
appeal to: women’s studies; contemporary ethnography; sociology; religion and spirituality; myth and ritual; culture
and performance studies; depth psychology, expressive arts, etc.
“I am presenting a landscape of a phenomenon that exists in our culture…
taking it out of the shadows and into the light…giving it the honor of a voice that needs to be heard.”
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"Women becoming whole as one... by incorporating past
experiences with new paradigms.”
"This is a film about the mystery of being alive."
"How lovely this work is! It's an artist's feast visually, the soundtrack, the art, the generous soul-sharing from those you interviewed, the precision of your composition, the achievement of a tone that is non-strident and gently invites us to experience feminine power mysteries. " |
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