TARIS (La Natation par Jean Taris)

Vigo's inventive portrait of the eponymous French swimming champion. His second film - another documentary - is only eleven minutes long, yet with striking images, including some under- water shots that point to the dramatic possibilities that Vigo was to explore further in his last film, L'Atalante.

TARIS encapsulates a lot of the aesthetic appeal of all of Vigo's films that lies in the tension between surface realism and a delicate surrealism.