Swimming to Cambodia

Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia is a 1987 Jonathan Demme performance film. The film is a performance of Spalding Gray's monologue 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 film grossed slightly over a million dollars.

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.

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

Related Topics:
Los Angeles - Chicago - Albany

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