Category: Wow
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Swim | Drama Short Film | Omeleto
A young swimming prodigy tries out for the nation’s top swim team, where he’s pushed towards greatness by a militant coach.
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Behind the Scenes: Audi ‘Synchronised Swim
Take a look behind the scenes of Audi ‘Synchronised Swim’. Created with BBH London and Director Johnny Hardstaff from Independent, this beautiful Audi campaign film shows that all Audi models have the same capabilities, tech and attitude. Find out more about the project: http://www.themill.com/portfolio/4876…
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A Meditative Aquatic Opera Featuring a Musician Gracefully Playing a Rectangular Cello Underwater
While he was artist-in-residence at Middlebury College in 2017, choreographer Gabriel Forestieri created “Breatheâ€, a highly meditative, graceful multi-disciplinary aquatic installation. The performance featured amongst a great many things, a musician playing an unusual but elegant rectangular cello as he floated upon and under the water. Composer Loren Kyoshi Dempster provided the haunting soundtrack. See Laughing Squid
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Hybrids, A Powerful Animation About Marine Life Incorporating Ocean Pollution Into Their Bodies
Five talented graduate students at the French animation school Ecole MoPA created a short powerful entitled “Hybrids†for their final project. This film imagines marine life adapting to ocean pollution, incorporating the items of trash into their physical beings and evolving into dangerously self-serving hybrids looking to rule the sea.
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Swimming Through the Wall of Sharks
The pristine waters of French Polynesia draw visitors from all over. Turns out grey reef sharks are pretty fond of them, too—so much so that the Island of Fakarava’s southern pass is called the “grey shark wall.†Fancy a swim?
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A Wonderful Animated Vignette About Writing While Swimming
In an amusing vignette from the crowdfunded Dempsey Rice documentary, The Animated Mind Of Oliver Sacks, legendary neurologist and prolific author Oliver Sacks relates an amusing story about the time he worked on his book while standing hip deep in lake while leaning against the dock in between swimming laps. Via Laughing Squid
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See Through the Lens of the World’s Best Underwater Surf Photographer | Ben Thouard in “Surface”
SURFACE, a ROAM Original, is the story of how award-winning photographer Ben Thouard invented a new perspective of our world—shot underwater from inside a wave looking back at the landscape as never seen before. His love of the ocean, surfing, and windsurfing brought him to the small village of Teahupoo, Tahiti, where he can see…
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Thailand Cave rescue: 12 boys and their coach are out
The Navy Seal team in charge of the rescue says that the 12 boys and their coach who were trapped in the cave have been brought out, completing an extraordinary and arduous rescue operation that captivated the world.