Jean Taris, Swimming Champion [SEP] director
Jean Taris, Swimming Champion
Jean Taris, Swimming Champion ( or La natation par Jean Taris, champion de France or Taris, champion de natation) is a 1931 French short documentary film directed by Jean Vigo, about the French swimmer Jean Taris. The film is notable for the many innovative techniques that Vigo uses, including close ups and freeze frames of the swimmer's body.
thus a film that stands resolutely apart from the great body of films."
His career began with two other films: "À propos de Nice" ("about Nice," 1930), a subversive silent film inspired by Soviet newsreels which considered social inequity in the resort town of Nice; and "Jean Taris, Swimming Champion" (1931), a study of swimmer Jean Taris. None of his four films were financial successes; at one point, with his and his wife's health suffering, Vigo