Beyond Voluntary Control

Beyond Voluntary Control conveys the experience of psychological and physical confinement. Through a surreal montage of haunting images from diverse sources, a sense of the obsessions, phobias, and diseases that constrict personal freedom is tellingly communicated. Dancer David Figueroa contributes his original and evocative movements to the mix. A soundtrack with poems by Emily Dickinson and Sharon Olds escorts the visual, and an interview with the filmmaker’s mother poignantly underscores the latter’s struggle with Parkinson’s disease.

– lock yourself in, let yourself go –

SCREENINGS & AWARDS (selected)
2023 – Rhizome DC (Solo show), Washington, D.C.
2000 – MADCAT Int’l Film Festival & Tour
         – 30th Anniversary Women Make Movies, MOMA
         – 39th Ann Arbor F/V Festival, BEST EDITING AWARD, 2001
2001 – Honorable Mention, 2001 Black Maria Film & Video Festival
         – THAW Film Festival, Iowa City, Iowa.

CREDITS
Producer/ Director & Editor:  Cathy Cook
Original Movement and Dance: David Figueroa
Sound Design: Paul Dickinson
Assistant to Director: Stefanie Koseff

DISTRIBUTION
Women Make Movies
www.cathyccook.com