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

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Producer(s)Jessica Yu
Director(s)Jessica Yu
Release Date1996
Runtime35 min
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Mark O'Brien, a journalist and poet, contracted polio in childhood, and has spent much of his life in an iron lung. For more than forty years, he has fought against illness, bureaucracy and society's conflicting perceptions of disability, to lead an independent life. Incorporating the vivid imagery of O'Brien's poetry, and his candid, wry and often profound reflections on work, sex, death and God, this provocative film asks: what makes a life worth living?

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