Hotel Monterey

Chantal Akerman’s time in New York produced a small handful of key works, including this singular film.

  • Director

    Chantal Akerman

  • Belgium-USA 1972. 62min

  • Digital

While living in New York City in the early 1970s, Akerman met cinematographer Babette Mangolte. Together, they filmed a run-down hotel over the course of a single night. Throughout this mesmerising film, a camera silently tracks through every corner of the hotel, encountering motionless, almost ghost-like guests. An arresting experiment with time and space, it highlights Akerman’s fascination with mundanity and the everyday.

The screening of Hotel Monterey on Wednesday 12 August will be introduced by scholar and critic Erika Balsom.