by Chantal Akerman, Photographed by Babette Mangolte (1972, 60 mins, Color, 16mm): "In Hotel Monterey the camera remains fixed at Chantal Akerman's eye level-she is about 5 feet, 1 inch tall-giving a low angle. Except for a few crepuscular tracking shots, there are no camera movements. Shots are sustained so far beyond normal duration that the eye, even when confronting static space, experiences a lavish range of optical events. The film's survey of a seedy welfare hotel is more architectural than anthropological; human beings stray in and out of the frozen frame, sometimes registering mild surprise at the presence of the camera, and eventually disappear from the film altogether...What Akerman's camera records, without distraction or augmentation, is the experience of space over time, how the eye receives information, breaks it down into constituent parts, and recomposes it." Gary Indiana, Art Forum