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Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien
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Runtime
35 min
Status
Released
Language
EN
Popularity
0.6
Director
Jessica Yu
Writers
Jessica Yu

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

1996 · ⭐ 6.6 · Votes: 5
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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