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“I definitely will not go to heaven if there is no swimming pool”, says Gerty Agoston in “Deeper than Y”.
“Deeper than Y” is a feature length, humorous and touching documentary questioning 8 eccentric elderly New Yorkers about relationships, politics, careers, and aging, while they faithfully attend the same water exercise class at the Vanderbilt YMCA.
Which one of them will you be at 80?
Will you spend your days in “God’s waiting room”, an airless senior community, or embrace an unpredictable varied life in New York City? Will you be writing a script for Steven Spielberg or calculating the exact tip after your early bird special? Will you still slow dance with your wife or sleep in separate bedrooms?
After the director of the film taught their water exercise class for two years, her elderly students opened up to her about relationships, pasts, politics, careers, and their insecurities about aging.
The result is “Deeper than Y”, an enlightening, heartfelt, and humorous journey through the lives of seven people, many of whom you might have passed on the street without giving a second look, people who not only impact the realities, fragilities, and humor of old age but also share their enduring hope for human possibility.
I started filming "Deeper than Y" to face my own selfish fears. Fears of aging, of sickness, of being alone, of dying...
Just like every other 30 year old, I believed 80 to be a time of standing still and constant annoyance with busy life around me. I was proved wrong.
I fell in love with characters in "Deeper than Y". Truly, fell in love. Their optimism, humor, adorable old age clumsiness and vulnerability.
Their wisdom touched me deeply, and now I can't wait to grow old, so I can too affect someone's life the same way they did mine.
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