bloodtime moontime dreamtime
A poetic documentary film trilogy 
by Emmy Award winning filmmaker, Roberta Cantow
with a musical score by Bronwen Jones

This three-part documentary work recontextualizes contemporary women’s experiences of blood, creativity and power. With stunning visual images, a haunting musical score and an original approach, this work delves into the values of the ancient "wise woman" ways. Whether a member of that community, or situated outside of it, Bloodtime Moontime Dreamtime provides a bird's eye view of a culture within our culture, which, whether we agree with its beliefs and practices or not, has begun to have influence over how women think and feel....about their bodies.... about the earth... about creativity and power and about personal and spiritual transformation. Combining notions of spirituality: (myth and ritual), with the philosophy of the expressive arts movement and eco-feminism, this trilogy presents a landscape of women creatively engaged in the meaning making of their lives.

- (The meanings and metaphors of blood) (20:00)

MOONTIME - Celebrating the Blessing - (Honoring girls' entrance into womanhood) (36:00)

DREAMTIME - Creating Art and Ritual- (Art and ritual as transformative tools; women as agents of change) (62:00)*

* Awards:

Accolade Award of Excellence, Documentary Feature Category, June, 2008

Finalist Moondance Film Festival, Documentary Feature, August. 2008moondance film festival finalist

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; body politics; contemporary ethnography; sociology; religion and spirituality; myth and ritual; 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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Orders and More information:
rcantow@originaldigital.net
or 1-877-843-3601 (TOLL FREE)
*Films may be ordered separately or all 3 on a single disk.

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"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. "

 

"Bloodtime, Moontime, Dreamtime is a beautifully done, emotionally-evocative and very informative documentary about repressed sources of women’s wisdom, rituals and power that flow from an embodied /goddess spirituality. Especially meaningful to readers of Crossing to Avalon, my own story of pilgrimage and insights into the sacred feminine."