Maniac Summer 15 years old

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.

Credits

Maniac Summer Cast

Name	Character
Chantal Akerman She was 58, 65 years old when she died

Maniac Summer Crew

Name	Department
Chantal Akerman as Cinematography. She was 58 (65) years old when She died	Crew
Chantal Akerman as Director. She was 58 (65) years old when She died	Directing
Chantal Akerman as Editor. She was 58 (65) years old when She died	Editing