Summary The Swimming Diaries originated as a book, a memoir exactly 25,000 words long, with each word representing one of the 25,000 metres or strokes swum by Susan Thomson during the month when her mother was dying. The film translates the book back into movement, hovering between experimental documentary, musical theatre and contemporary opera to trace a journey from life to death. Thomson's moving tribute, a feminist exploration of matrilineal creativity, is at times surreal - conjuring the effects of morphine taken in the last stages of illness, as it interweaves choral, orchestral and pop music, and a vivid mosaic of underwater imagery, dance sequences and archive video of musicals directed by her mother. View more details
Directed : Susan Thomson
Written : Susan Thomson
Stars : Alessandra Azevedo Vitor Bassi Julie Gautier Louise O'Shea
Genres : Biography Music Documentary
Release date : Feb 27, 2024
Countries of origin : Ireland
Official sites : MUBI listing
Language : English
Filming locations : Ireland
Production companies : New Decade TV and Film
Summary The Swimming Diaries originated as a book, a memoir exactly 25,000 words long, with each word representing one of the 25,000 metres or strokes swum by Susan Thomson during the month when her mother was dying. The film translates the book back into movement, hovering between experimental documentary, musical theatre and contemporary opera to trace a journey from life to death. Thomson's moving tribute, a feminist exploration of matrilineal creativity, is at times surreal - conjuring the effects of morphine taken in the last stages of illness, as it interweaves choral, orchestral and pop music, and a vivid mosaic of underwater imagery, dance sequences and archive video of musicals directed by her mother. View more details
Genres : Biography Music Documentary
Release date : Feb 27, 2024
Countries of origin : Ireland
Official sites : MUBI listing
Language : English
Filming locations : Ireland
Production companies : New Decade TV and Film
