Hotel Monterey

A hypnotic tour of a New York hotel that proves that nighttime is Akerman time.

This mesmerising silent travelogue around a cheap hotel, shot as if from the point of view of a ghost trapped inside, shows Akerman’s interest in the everyday alongside her disdain for reality. Filming from dusk to dawn, with Babette Mangolte behind the camera, they transform the hotel’s lobbies, lifts, bedrooms and corridors into a fluorescent otherworld and its inhabitants into sleepwalkers.

As Mangolte said: ‘Night is where the lonely people are’.