Hotel Monterey

+ intro by scholar and critic Erika Balsom

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.

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