''Hotel Monterey'' is a 1973 American silent

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

directed by

Chantal Akerman Chantal Anne Akerman (; 6 June 19505 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and Film studies, film professor at the City College of New York. She is best known for films such as ''Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 108 ...

. It is Akerman's first feature film. In 2013, Akerman introduced ''Hotel Monterey'', along with two other films, ''La Chambre'' and ''

News from Home ''News from Home'' is a 1977 avant-garde documentary film directed by Chantal Akerman. The film consists of long takes of locations in New York City set to Akerman's voice-over as she reads letters that her mother sent her between 1971 and 1973 wh ...

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11th annual "Save and Project" film series
at the New York

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Synopsis

The film consists of a series of silent long takes shot in a hotel in New York City. Shots are meticulously staged to create visual patterns and optical illusions as the film slowly explores several different parts of the hotel, ranging from austere and claustrophobic basement corridors to hotel rooms—some occupied, some not—to skylines of neighboring building roofs and water towers shot from the rooftop.

Location

The hotel, located at 215 West 94th Street in

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, opened in 1914 as the Hotel Apthorp. In 1916, the name changed to Hotel Monterey, the name it retained until 1976. By 2008, it had become Days Hotel, part of the Days Inn/Quality Inn chain.

Release

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released it through their Eclipse series in 2010, as part of a set titled ''Chantal Akerman in the Seventies''. The set included four feature films Akerman directed in the 1970s as well as a number of short films.

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