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Title: SWIMMER, the

Reference number: 13898

Date: 2012

Director: d. Lynn Ramsay

Sponsor: National Lottery and Creative Scotland

Production company: Warp Films

Sound: sound

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 17 mins

Description: Swimmer is a poetic journey through the waterways and coastline of the British Isles, following a lone swimmer through lakes, rivers and coves. The journey is framed by a soundtrack of seminal British music, combined with a sound tapestry of hydrophonic recordings and snippets of bankside conversations. The film aims to give a real feel for the diversity of landscape and people of Britain. [Synopsis taken from the BBC website, https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfilm/films/swimmer, last accessed 26/10/21]

Catalogued from secondary sources including Creative Scotland, BFI archive and the BBC.

The film is one of 4 unique co-commissions in partnership between BBC Films, Film4 and the London Organisational Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Winner of the BAFTA Award Best Short Film for writer/director 2013.

Credits: BBC Films and Film4 present

In association with The London 2012 Festival

Funded by the National Lottery and Creative Scotland

A Warp Films Production
In association with Rockinghorse Films Limited

A Film by Lynne Ramsay

Produced by
Peter Carlton and Diarmid Scrimshaw

exec. p.
Christine Langan
Joe Oppenheimer

exec. p.
Katherine Butler
Ruth MacKenzie
Leonie Bell
Lynne Ramsay
Rory Stewart Kinnear

The Swimmer
Tom Litten

Director of Photography
Natasha Braier

Editor
Adam Biskupski

Sound Designer
Paul Davies

Production Designer
Jane Morton

Costume Designer
Sarah Blenkinsop

Music Supervisor
Rory Stewart Kinnear

Line Producers
Sarada McDermott and Martin Box