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Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996)

Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996)

Documentary
Release Date: 1996, March 13
Directors: Jessica Yu
Countries: United States of America
Production: Inscrutable Films, Pacific News Service
Cast: Mark O'Brien

Overview:

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.

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