# animate! › Films › Cage of Flame by Kayla Parker › synopses

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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

1992, 9 min 45 sec

### 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.

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