7 Beats per Minute
2024 documentary film directed by Yuqi Kang
7 Beats per Minute is a 2024 Canadian documentary film, directed by Yuqi Kang. The film is a portrait of Jessea Lu, the Chinese freediver who nearly died during a 2018 attempt to set a world record in her sport. The film examines Lu's experience as an athlete and the emotional effects of the incident, as well as the filmmaker's journey as Kang becomes a participant in Lu's story.
The film premiered on 8 March 2024 at SXSW and had its Canadian premiere on 26 April at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
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In voiceover, director Yuqi Kang introduces freediving as an experience which awakens primitive physiological and psychological responses. The pressure of a descent causes blood to contract toward the organs and the heart rate to slow. Champion freediver Jessea Lu states that her consciousness also contracts, feeling safe and content, and allowing her to examine her fears and emotional responses. She says that the "otherworldly" experience allowed her to learn more about herself and the therapeutic benefits help her lead a more enjoyable life.
While studying to be a pharmacologist, Jessea took a college scuba-diving course and then moved into freediving, analyzing and practicing its techniques to a high aptitude. She developed a static breath hold of over 10 minutes which earned her the title of "freediving goddess" and accompanied an Antarctic expedition as a research diver.
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