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Swimming to Cambodia, otherwise called Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia, is a 1987 American narrative film coordinated by Jonathan Demme, composed by and featuring Spalding Gray. The execution film reports Gray's play and monolog, which fixated on such subjects as his outing to Southeast Asia to make the part of the U.S. Minister's associate in The Killing Fields, theCold War, Cambodia Year Zero and his quest for his "ideal minute". The film earned somewhat over $US1 million.
The monolog was initially distributed in book structure two years before the arrival of the film.
Background
Swimming to Cambodia was initially a theater piece on which Gray put in two years working. The first running time of the execution was four hours in length and occurred more than two evenings. It won Gray an Obie grant.
In 2001, Gray took Swimming to Cambodia back to the phase in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, California and Albany, New York.
Content
The opening shots of the film portray Gray strolling toward The Performing Garage in New York. He goes in and subsequent to strolling in past the crowd, he sits down behind a table. On the table is a glass of water, a mouthpiece and a note pad which Gray carried with him. Behind him are two pulldown maps. One is a guide of Southeast Asia and the other is a chart of the besieging of Cambodia, which Gray tells the viewers/group of onlookers was called Operation Breakfast. There is likewise illuminated projection screen which has anticipated on it a photo of a shoreline.
Dim goes ahead to play out a monolog where he talks about his encounters taping a little part in the motion picture The Killing Fields. Scattered with his own particular encounters he explains the late history of Cambodia up through the coming to force of theKhmer Rouge and the Cambodian Genocide. Three scenes from The Killing Fields including Gray are utilized at different focuses as a part of the film.
Production
The soundtrack for this film was formed and performed by Laurie Anderson, who might likewise score Gray's subsequent film, Monster in a Box. Dark furnished a proportional payback by giving the voice of a TV questioner for her 1986 short film, What You Mean We?. No soundtrack collection was discharged; Anderson later reused music from the film for a progression of "Individual Service Announcements" she delivered in 1989 to advance her collection, Strange Angels.
While Sam Waterston and Ira Wheeler are credited in the film from their appearances in clasps utilized from The Killing Fields.