Swimming to Cambodia

Swimming to Cambodia is a 1987 Johnathan Demme film. The film is based upon Spaulding Gray's monolouges which centered around such themes as his trip to Southeast Asia to create the role of the U.S. Ambassadors Aide in The Killing Fields directed by Roland Joffé, the Cold War, Cambodia Year Zero and his search for his "perfect moment". The performed monolougues from which this won him an Obie.

The music in Swimming to Cambodia was created by performance artist Laurie Anderson.

While Sam Watterson and Ira Wheeler are credited as additional cast in this film, they are only shown in clips from the film The Killing Fields.

It is also in book form.

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Three days after Spalding Gray finishes his moment finds his perfect moment in the waters off of the beach of [[]] in Cambodia.