A SWIM LESSON

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East Coast Premiere

Documentary Short | USA | 2023 | English | 21 minutes


Watching Bill Marsh teach children how to swim is like witnessing a great opera, one filled with intense agony and ecstasy, absurdism, fear, hope, despair, joy, connection, love, some vomit, and lots of belching.

Expected to attend: Rashida Jones, director



Presented as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: BODILY FREEDOMS

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