Swimming Pool Movies

History, work, sex, cinema, death and my older brother. An essay on what swimming pools mean in culture and the collective memories we have about...

This short subject shows Lissa Bengston teaching a group of three- and four-year-olds how to swim in a pool. Miss Bengston, a member of the Royal...

A swimming instructor is taking a class when a young girl's scream echoes throughout the public pool. Parents rush to pull their children out of the...

A young boy struggles with the loss of his mother.

A conflict between two sisters turns out in a dramatic finish

Pool Blue is an attempt which tells, without dialogue nor rationality, a connection fantasized between two men. It is the fantastical projection...

Measuring their power and proving themselves is part of the boys’ everyday life. Even for the 13-year-old gentle-natured Yannik. Until his best...

Dani is 14 and does not want to miss another summer without conquering Monica, the most spectacular girl of the club.

Cutting himself off from the world, his friends and especially his father, against whom he nourishes feelings of bitterness, resentment and distrust,...

Dorothy (Fiona Samuel), a lone swimmer, luxuriates in tranquil bliss at a deserted pool — only to have her solitude rudely interrupted by a...

Two distant friends in a state of malaise. One unknown frequency permeating from a walkie talkie that connects them. It's the Fourth of July. The...

In this Sportscope short, children from preschool age through age 14 are shown diving from various heights into a swimming pool. Lissa Bengston, of...

8:30 follows an unsuspecting door-to-door salesman, who finds himself stranded in a desert-like suburb as his train returns to the same train station...

Woman finds out the hard way that you don't go into the pool at night.

Swimming Pool Stories is a visual presentation of the swimming pools around Iceland, the culture associated with them and the guests who use the...