# animate! › Films › Cage of Flame by Kayla Parker › all › synopses › direction & collaboration › full production credits › film stills › tools & processes › format & distribution › background material

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Discovery terms: 1990s animation, pixilation, stop-motion animation, cut-out animation, direct animation, hand-drawn animation, menstruation, the body, dreams, experimental short film, filmmaker, artist filmmaker

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**Cage of Flame** a film by Kayla Parker

[Kayla Parker](https://www.kaylaparker.co.uk/)

1992, 9 min 45 sec

[Film / embedded media](https://player.vimeo.com/video/991796)

![Cage of Flame, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/cageofflame10.jpg)

### animate! synopsis

A dream life of angels. What wings really mean. The wise wound and its belly music. Desire is vulvic and creativity claims the calendar of bodies.

### short synopsis

An alternative view of menstruation which celebrates that time of month when dreams and the imaginery dominate.

A counter to the sanitised, pastel pretty version we are conditioned to accept. The creative period – what the television ads missed out.

### key credits

**director**
Kayla Parker

**performer**
Nakinda Parker

**lighting camera**
Stuart Moore

**animation**
Kayla Parker

**editor**
Kayla Parker

**dubbing mixer**
Paul Roberts

### Kayla Parker

### animate! films by this artist

[Cage of Flame](https://animate.org.uk/films/cageofflame/)

[Sunset Strip](https://animate.org.uk/films/sunsetstrip/)

#### artist’s website

[Sundog Media](http://www.sundog.co.uk/)

The production company run by Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore

### a film by Kayla Parker

### direction

**director**
Kayla Parker

### cast in picture

**performer**
Nakinda Parker

### live-action personnel

**lighting camera**
Stuart Moore

### image personnel

**animation**
Kayla Parker

**editor**
Kayla Parker

### sound personnel

**dubbing mixer**
Paul Roberts

### support

**primary funding**
Arts Council of England/Channel Four Animate! award

© Kayla Parker 1992

[![Cage of Flame, still: photograph Stuart Moore 1992](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/cageofflame01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/cageofflame01.jpg)

photograph Stuart Moore 1992

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[![Cage of Flame, still: Cage of Flame title card](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/cageofflame02.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/cageofflame02.jpg)

Cage of Flame title card

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### master copy format

**format**
16mm

**colour or black & white**
colour

### video distribution format

**video format**
BetaSP

**screen aspect ratio**
4:3

**video standard**
PAL

**sound type**
stereo

### distributor

LUX
[info@lux.org.uk](mailto:info@lux.org.uk)
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
[www.lux.org.uk](http://www.lux.org.uk/)

**Cage of Flame** film, stills and other materials © Kayla Parker 1992