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Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien is a american film of genre Documentary directed by Jessica Yu released in USA on 1 january 1996

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

Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien
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Released in USA 1 january 1996
Length 35minutes
Directed by
OriginUSA
Rating75% 3.7778353.7778353.7778353.7778353.777835

Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien is a 1996 American short documentary film directed by Jessica Yu. It won an Academy Award at the 69th Academy Awards in 1997 for Documentary Short Subject.

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.

Mark died on July 4, 1999, from post-polio syndrome.



^ "The 69th Academy Awards (1997) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-23.

^ "New York Times: Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-05-30.

^ "Mark O'Brien's web site". Mark O'Brien's site. Archived from the original on 19 April 2011.
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