Film
The Ponds + Swimming talks and exhibition
- Director
- Samuel Smith, Patrick McLennan
- Certificate
- 12A
- Running Time
- 76 mins
A gentle, straightforward documentary portrait of the bathing ponds of Hampstead Heath and the people of all ages and backgrounds who use them, recorded over a period of 12 months.
The Curzon’s screening is part of the Curzon Roof Festival, which aims to raise funds for repair of the historic cinema’s leaky roof. Before and after the screening, there will be talks by Emma Pusill and John Myatt – two local open water swimmers with quite different stories to tell.
In Travels with My Towel, Emma offers a tour of some of the pools she visited when researching her recently completed book, The Lido Guide (featuring Clevedon Marine Lake). John will discuss swimming 1km in zero degree water, unconventional Russian recovery techniques, and how the right mind-set led him to his rightful place on the podium at the World Ice Swimming Championships in Murmansk this year.
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There will also be an exhibition of early 20th century photographs of the pools depicted in The Ponds.
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