Dance on Film

Having enjoyed: h2dance presents: SHORT FILMS by Rachel Davies, Shelly Love, straybird/Lucy Cash, Becky Edmunds, last night I am to resurrect this Blog... Two things came up: To the question: 'Why Dance and Film not, Dance and Painting or other media', the answer: 'Yes, why not other media.' Though the distinction was made between film with/about dance and dance film, with the latter being a film curated through choreography, and if I understood correctly, the former, where dance is the subject or tool and not the medium. With narrative a tool interpreted in all mediums and a tool being a means to an end rather than that of a medium of expression. The other point, where Rachel Davies described the, '3 births' of a filmed dance piece: The idea, the shoot and the edit. How can working with others with other specific disciplines to the one you practice negate/compliment your own?