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The Swimming Diaries (2024)
100 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

The Swimming Diaries (2024)

100 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

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 ...See moreThe 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. See less

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11 cast members

Name	Known for
Alessandra Azevedo Self - Dancer Self - Dancer See fewer	The Swimming Diaries (2024)
Vitor Bassi Self - Dancer Self - Dancer See fewer	The Island of Saints (2022)
Julie Gautier Self - Underwater dancer Self - Underwater dancer See fewer	Narcose (2013)
Louise O'Shea Self Self See fewer	The Swimming Diaries (2024)
Isabella Oberländer Self - Dancer Self - Dancer See fewer	The Swimming Diaries (2024)
Hamish Thomson Self Self See fewer	The Swimming Diaries (2024)
Pamela Thomson Self Self See fewer	The Swimming Diaries (2024)
Richard Thomson Self Self See fewer	Lovesick (2014)
Rowan Thomson Self - Dancer Self - Dancer See fewer	The Swimming Diaries (2024)
Susan Thomson Self Self See fewer	Ghost Empire § Belize (2021)
Mufutau Yusuf Self - Dancer, choreography Self - Dancer, choreography See fewer	Ghost Empire § Mauritius-Chagos (2025)

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