Maniac SummerMovie
Maniac Summer consists of images and sounds recorded in Paris in the summer of 2009. It is a sprawling triptych without a beginning or end and with no specific subject or topic. The camera is positioned in front of a window and left running. It observes movements, registers noises coming from the street or nearby park, captures Chantal Akerman going about her business in her apartment: smoking, working, talking on the telephone. Fragments from the artist’s everyday life are featured in the installation’s central video, while the adjoining panels are more symbolically charged; in them, various images from the former have been isolated, modified and repeated. These abstract afterimages act as a kind of memory, looking back to the images in the installation’s centrepiece as so many shadows of its reality.
About Maniac Summer
Maniac Summer is a 2009 documentary movie directed by Chantal Akerman.
The production information lists a runtime of 34m, production credits from France, an original language code of FR.
The credited cast includes Chantal Akerman. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
