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Title: HOTEL CENTRAL

Reference number: 7796

Date: 2000

Director: animated and d. Matt Hulse

Sponsor: Arts Council of England and Channel 4

Producer: Aimara Reques

Production company: [ Animate!]

Sound: sound

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 10.10 mins

Description: Hovering in mood somewhere between M. HULOT’S HOLIDAY and THE EXORCIST, this eccentric film does not attempt to narrate a dream, though it exploits the same kind of mechanisms that dreams utilise. Hold on to your hats! [Synopsis taken from the Scottish Screen Short Film Catalogue 2003]

Find out further information about this film and view it online at http://apl.myzen.co.uk/films/by_date/1999_2001/hotel_central [last accessed 15/2/2010]

See also ref. 7907

Credits: Guest Joost van Veen
sd. design Gerald Mair
original m. A Normal Boy [Matt Hulse]
camera Roel v/d Madden, Jim Rusk, Erik Ziege
stills and titles Room 8 Studio
ed. Holger Mohaupt
p. man. Lucy Brown
p. Aimara Reques
animated and d. Matt Hulse

Acknowledgements Royal Hotel, Kathy Friend, Adam Squires, Rob Kennedy, Rith Pendragon, Han v/d Madden, GMAC, GHS, LCH Glasgow

dedicated to Claes Galis [much missed champion of super 8 film makers]

Transfer to 35mm provided by Scottish Screen
Funded by The Arts Council of England and Channel 4

© Matt Hulse 2000