The Blue Summer

The Blue Summer

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 18, 2000

Runtime

2h 5m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

The Blue Summer

Director

John Sergeant

Description

Blue Summer is an experimental film about the doomed love affair between a writer and his conceptual artist lover. An unseen narrator guides us through the story, describing how he unearthed a pile of letters and fragments of a novel in an abandoned trailer in the countryside. Slowly, these fragments come to life, revealing how the writer's paranoid fantasies provoke a psychological meltdown.Exploring a number of contemporary concerns - the media, modern art, digitalisation, modernism, ecology - the film experiments with filmic genres and uses image and sound to mirror the writer's descent into madness.