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Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996)
Directed by Jessica Yu
Documentary · 35m
Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien is a 1996 American short documentary film directed by Jessica Yu. Mark O'Brien was a journalist and poet who lived in Berkeley, California. The documentary explored his spiritual struggle coping with his disability; he had to use an iron lung much of the time due to childhood polio. O'Brien died on 4 July 1999, from post-polio syndrome. It won an Oscar at the 69th Academy Awards in 1997 for Documentary Short Subject.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Jessica Yu
- Writer
- Jessica Yu
- Editor
- Jessica Yu
- Producer
- Jessica Yu
Details
- Release date
- 1996-03-13
- Runtime
- 35m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Inscrutable Films, Pacific News Service