Films : Summer with Monika : all
animate! synopsis
The poetic youth is back and the decades fall away in this pastel pastoral. Roger McGough doesn’t cough once as the season sentimentally unfolds.
one sentence synopsis
A short animated film based on Roger McGough’s classic quirky love poem Summer with Monika.
short synopsis
With insightful humour, Summer with Monika explores the paranoia and self doubt which seep into most romantic relationships at one stage or another.
long synopsis
Summer with Monika is an exciting montage of colour and exuberant abstraction, exploring the paranoia and self doubt which seep into most romantic relationships at one stage or another.
At first glance the images shift effortlessly from one to the next in a stream of consciousness, but closer inspection reveals a different perspective which does not always tally with the participants’ own story.
An up-beat score and Roger McGoughs soulful but witty narration keep everything light-hearted.
key credits
- director
- Corrina Askin
Corrina Askin
a film by Corrina Askin
direction
- director
- Corrina Askin
based upon
- actual credit
- based upon
- title of original material
- Summer with Monica
- author
- Roger McGough
- type of adapted source material
- poem
- copyright
- © Roger McGough 1967
image personnel
- digital effects
- Maeve Kelly
support
- primary funding
Arts Council of England/Channel Four
© Coriina Askin 2000
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master copy format
- format
- 35mm
- colour or black & white
- colour
video distribution format
- video format
- BetaSP
- screen aspect ratio
- 4:3
- video standard
- PAL
- sound type
- stereo
distributor
LUX
info@lux.org.uk
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
www.lux.org.uk
