The Shape of Summer

Melissa’s short film The Shape of Summer is an ode to a season that always feels too brief. The work explores summer as a fleeting, dreamlike state—something that slips away before it can be fully grasped.

Set against the Dutch landscape, the film draws on a sense of collective nostalgia and the ache of moments that can’t be held onto. The Shape of Summer blurs the boundary between dream and reality, memory and sensation. In an overstimulated world, it becomes a meditation on presence, the female body as a site of transformation, and the strangeness of the everyday.