# animate! › Films › Summer with Monika by Corrina Askin

Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/summerwithmonika/

Discovery terms: 2000s animation, pencil animation, hand-drawn animation, love, self-doubt, relationships, poetry film, filmmaker, animator

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**Summer with Monika** a film by Corrina Askin

[Corrina Askin](https://corrinaaskin.com)

2000, 4 min 29 sec

![Summer with Monika, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/summerwithmonika01.jpg)

### a film by Corrina Askin

### 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.

### key credits

**director**
Corrina Askin

**Summer with Monika** film, stills and other materials © Coriina Askin 2000