Swimming to Cambodia is a 1987 Jonathan Demme film. The film is based upon Spalding Gray's monolouge 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".

Performances

Swimming to Cambodia was originally a theatre piece on which Gray spent two years working. The original running time of the performance was two and a half hours.

Swimming to Cambodia won Gray an Obie award. In 2001, Gray took Swimming to Cambodia back to the stage in 2001 in Los Angeles, Chicago and Albany.

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.

The monolouges have also been published in book form.

External Links

Swimming to Cambodia on IMDB Review of Swimming to Cambodia in 2001