Breathing Lessons The Life and Work of Mark OBrien (1996)

Breathing Lessons The Life and Work of Mark OBrien is a 1996 American short documentary film directed by Jessica Yu Mark OBrien was a journalist and poet who lived in Berkeley California The documentary explored his spiritual struggle coping with his disability he had to use an iron lung much of the time due to childhood polio OBrien died on 4 July 1999 from postpolio syndrome It won an Oscar at the 69th Academy Awards in 1997 for Documentary Short Subject