Maniac Summer (2009)
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.
Director: Chantal Akerman
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Chantal Akerman as Self |
| Crew | Chantal Akerman | Cinematography |
| Crew | Claire Atherton | Cinematography |
| Sound | Claire Atherton | Sound Editor |
| Directing | Chantal Akerman | Director |
| Editing | Chantal Akerman | Editor |
