In Short: Swim
Produced by Jon Goldman & Chip Moore
For many people the idea of an “out of the way” beach means an idyllic surrounding separated from the realities of the world; for African American fisheries biologist Jearld Ambrose, swimming as a child at segregated Atlantic Beach, South Carolina was his only option. Swim is an animated short about Jearld’s memories of family trips to the sea. The film explores the subject using hand-drawn and computer-based animation with archival footage.
*This project was produced in collaboration with the WGBH Lab.
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