Between Breaths 

Between Breaths is a lyrical short film inspired by my experience of blacking out underwater while freediving in Indonesia in August 2023, during my training to become a freediving instructor.
Losing consciousness underwater was a complete loss of control unlike anything I had experienced before—an incident that rippled into deeper questions of identity, purpose, and trust.

This film is a way of processing that moment and its aftermath—a space to give the anger, fear, and grief that followed a place to live outside my body.

Shot in Cornwall and rooted in personal experience, creating Between Breaths has been a practice in vulnerability, courage, and learning to trust again from a place of disconnection.
It is also an offering—an invitation for others to sit with their own fear, to acknowledge what has been lost, and, perhaps, to trust again.




                                                                                       




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