Come Mute
2004/ 11'
director: Cheryl Dunn. choreographer: Chemecki & Lerner. performers: Jennifer Weber, Maria Hassabi, Mary Madsen, Zina, Anaplioti, Natalia Alonso, Camille Delgado, Chikako Iwahori, Tzveta Kassabova, Jennifer Lieberman, Stacey Napoleone, Meeni Naqvi, Anna Brady Nuse, Courtney Sara Poulos, Tiffany Rea. editing: Owen Plotkin. production: filmchicks, inc. USA
Come Mute is an autobiographical fable representing the life of a young New Jersey girl as she tries to deal with how to bring creativity to her difficult working class existence. The film expresses the plight of all women who are innately creative but find themselves trapped in mundane dead end lives. It then juxtaposes the harsh reality of everyday work life with the surreal quality of unique modern dance performances. Through the medium of dance the main character is able to pass her kinetic creative spirit on to other women through a variety of creative visual handoffs. The piece encompasses a combination of dialogue, sound design and music scored specifically for the film. This is a day in the life turned on its head and walking on its hands.

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Neglect
2003/6'
director, choreographer, photography, editing: Dianne Reid. music: Mark Lang. performers: Chay Baker, Sheridan Lang, Emma Wilson. producer: Hip Sync. Australia
Set in a circa 1963 apartment building in the heart of Melbourne's Jewish quarter, Neglect chases clues of the hidden lives of three women. An eerie journey through corridors and stairwells, the building becomes a metaphor for the body as the location upon which emotional battles are played out and histories are inscribed.
Dianne Reid is a performer/choreographer/ videographer who works as an independent dance artist in Melbourne. Mark Land is a Melbourne based performer, composer and sound artist. Neglect is Mark's third creative collaboration with Dianne Reid.

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Hallucination Corporelle
2004/ 15'
director, photography, editing: Eric S. Koziol. choreographer, performer: Robynne Gravenhorst. music: John Bischoff. producer: Eric S. Koziol, Dance company: Anatomical Theatre. U.S.A.
Hallucination Corporelle is a choreography for camera created by filmmaker Eric S. Koziol and choreographer Robynne M. Gravenhorst. The work presents a clinical, yet intrinsically sensual, composite portrait of patients suffering from "disturbances of body schema", neurological syndromes that profoundly alter the way in which one perceives one's own body. Patients may report that the left half of their body does not belong to them, is dead, or has disappeared altogether. Some experience the sensation that parts of their bodies become grossly enlarged, distorted, or entirely detached. The piece takes its point of departure from an extraordinary clinical observation, published in 1905 by French neurologists G. Deny and P. Camus, on their patient Madame I, a woman who had "lost body awareness". Although these patients profess beliefs about their bodily states that strike us as nothing short of madness, they are nonetheless remarkably lucid, cogent, even eloquent - in sum, ostensibly sane.
Eric's film "The Duchess" has been screened in VideoDance2003.

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