Hotel Central


Created through a process of close collaboration between director, performer and crew, this thoroughly eccentric and stylistically original film does not attempt to narrate a dream, though it exploits the same kind of mechanisms that dreams utilise.


Credits

Director Matt Hulse
Guest Joost Van Veen
Camera Matt Hulse, Roel van de Maaden, Jim Rusk, & Joost Van Veen
Animation Matt Hulse, Roel van de Maaden & Joost Van Veen
Editor Holger Mohaupt
Producers Matt Hulse & Aimara Reques


Synopsis

Created through a process of close collaboration between director, performer and crew, this thoroughly eccentric and stylistically original film does not attempt to narrate a dream, though it exploits the same kind of mechanisms that dreams utilise. Accidents and disasters were welcomed as important methods of production, as were found objects, chance locations and generally excessive behaviour. Surrealist filmmaker Luis Bunuel called this open-ended, intuitive process 'conscious psychic automation' and as a modus operandi it was followed right through to the final cut.


Full credits

Director Matt Hulse
Guest Joost Van Veen
Camera Matt Hulse, Roel van de Maaden, Jim Rusk & Joost Van Veen
Animation Roel van de Maaden, Matt Hulse & Joost Van Veen
Editor Holger Mohaupt
Music Matt Hulse
Titles Room 8 Studios
Sound Designer Gerald Mair
Production Manager Lucy Brown
Producers Matt Hulse & Aimara Reques
Thanks to Royal Hotel, Kathy Friend, Adam Squires, Rob Kennedy, Ruth Pendragon, Han van der Maaden, GMAC