Municipal Swimming Pool
Director Patricia Pérez Fernández
Countries Spain
Duration 38 min
Synopsis
“Municipal Swimming Pool” is a documentary about the swimming pool of a small township, Cabana de Bergantiños (in the Coast of Death, Galicia, Spain). Every day, from 6month-babies to 80 years-elders, come together to receive swimming lessons o to simply enjoy of the benefits of being in the water. But this space, the gathering and the swimming lessons are only the means to allow us to get access to people´s culture, latent in the thought of the bathers. Isn´t the swimming pool the ideal space for the mind to unburden itself, once the body is domesticated by the repetition of kicks and strokes, and to travel unbridled between past, present and future?
“Municipal Swimming Pool” is a documentary about the swimming pool of a small township, Cabana de Bergantiños (in the Coast of Death, Galicia, Spain). Every day, from 6month-babies to 80 years-elders, come together to receive swimming lessons o to simply enjoy of the benefits of being in the water. But this space, the gathering and the swimming lessons are only the means to allow us to get access to people´s culture, latent in the thought of the bathers. Isn´t the swimming pool the ideal space for the mind to unburden itself, once the body is domesticated by the repetition of kicks and strokes, and to travel unbridled between past, present and future?