CinemaOSMovie · 2009 · 0h 34m

Maniac Summer

80%(1)Documentary

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.

Directed byChantal Akerman

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Released
Runtime
0h 34m
Language
FR
Released
December 5, 2009

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Chantal Akerman

Chantal Akerman

Self

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Directed by
Chantal Akerman
Chantal Akerman

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