Films : Hotel Central : all
animate! synopsis
Hats on for this journey into an old country past. Room service with a difference: the phone rings in the wardrobe or the wilds. Nobody and everyman home. A grab bag of styles help us to feel like a man adrift in woodland.
short synopsis
We are floating somewhere between Les Vacances de M. Hulot and The Exorcist, thirty miles southwest of Leipzig, holding onto our hats.
key credits
- director
- Matt Hulse
- guest
- Joost Van Veen
- lighting camera
- Roel van de Maaden
- animation
- Matt Hulse
- editor
- Hozger Mohaupt
- music
- A Normal Boy
- sound designer
- Gerald Mair
- producer
- Aimara Reques
Matt Hulse
short biography
Matt’s practice crosses boundaries between film, video, animation, interactivity and installation. In 1994 he completed the Electronic Imaging course at Duncan of Jordanstone and his many prizewinning films that have followed were screened in a retrospective at Dresden Filmfest 2002.
His first animate! work was Hotel Central which shared with Jean Luc Godard the Special Award for Film at the Split Festival of New Cinema 2001. He lives in Edinburgh.
3 November 2004
artist statement
The film is a fleeting and intense exploration of large, cold isolated office blocks and lone, alienated workers, stuck in bizarre routines in a nasty grey oppressive city. You may have heard of lone soldiers in the jungle who are still fighting the Vietnam War when it’s been over for 30 years?
Our characters here are similar, like workers carrying on at their desk in desperation after some terrible urban disaster. Meanwhile the computers and offices have evolved and are able to move/change/dance – this is where the animation comes in!
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direction
- director
- Matt Hulse
cast in picture
- guest
- Joost Van Veen
live-action personnel
- lighting camera
- Roel van de Maaden
- Jim Rusk
- Erik Ziege
image personnel
- animation
- Matt Hulse
- titles
- Room 8 Studios
- editor
- Hozger Mohaupt
sound personnel
- music
- A Normal Boy
- sound designer
- Gerald Mair
production personnel
- production manager
- Lucy Brown
- producer
- Aimara Reques
support
- thanks
Royal Hotel, Kathy Friend, Adam Squires, Rob Kennedy, Ruth Pendragon, Han Vio Maaden, GNAC, GHS, LCH
- primary funding
Arts Council of England/Channel Four
© Matt Hulse 2000
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master copy format
- colour or black & white
- black & white
video distribution format
- video format
- BetaSP
- screen aspect ratio
- 4:3
- video standard
- PAL
- sound type
- stereo
distributor
LUX
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