Hotel

Hotel

The events unfold in Madrid's Plaza de España, captured from above by Iván Zulueta's camera.

1975 · 15 min · Documentary

From the high vantage point offered by the thirteenth floor of the Edificio España apartment, Zulueta dedicates himself to filming the daily—or not so daily—reality taking place in Madrid's Plaza de España. The images captured by the camera range from the police repression of a protest, to the preparations for the arrival of US President Gerald Ford, or a woman's suicide attempts among the letters of the "Hotel" sign on the neighboring Torre de Madrid.

Directed by Iván Zulueta

Your Rating

Make it a double feature

2h 5m together

Hotel

Rapture

Both from Iván Zulueta.

More from Iván ZuluetaSee all →

(Sin título) Descartes Arrebato

(Sin título) Descartes Arrebato · 1979

(Sin título) Descartes Arrebato

MovieDocumentary

Recovered Zulueta short.

Rapture

Rapture · 1980

MovieDramaFantasy

José Sirgado is a low-budget filmmaker whose heroin addiction distorts his perspective of the real world. Although he is a depressed and unstable individual, his mood improves when he receives the mysterious films of Pedro, with whom he shares his passion for cinema.

Párpados

Párpados · 1989

MovieComedyRomance

Párpados (the literal translation, “Eyelids”, misses the homophonic “par pa’ dos,” or “a couple for two”) is a 1989 television episode with an intricate script involving a delirious array of doubles, mirrors and word-play revolving around the central theme of amorous obsession.

Ida y vuelta

Ida y vuelta · 1968

Elena, a shy and unmarried girl, belonging to the upper middle class and somewhat marginalized from the general environment, embarks on a trip to the family farmhouse one morning, and when she returns to the city that same day, at night, she is forced to take a strange woman in her car.

Arrebatados: recordando a Iván Zulueta

Arrebatados: recordando a Iván Zulueta · 2010

Arrebatados: recordando a Iván Zulueta

A portrait of the film director Iván Zulueta and his film Arrebato. It features contributions from friends and people who worked with him such as José Luis Borau, Pedro Almodóvar, Antonio Gasset and Julio Médem.

Something

Something · 1968

A pop-art video of The Beatles’ “Something” made especially for Spain’s TV shot Último Grito in 1968. Iván Zulueta’s first attempts to get his colourful ideas on film and a clear nod to what would become his first feature film, “Un, dos, tres… al escondite inglés.”

Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés

Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés · 1969

Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés

MovieMusicComedy

A band of young musicians will do the impossible to boycott a song they didn't like that's supposed to represent Spain in a famous musical contest.

Ágata

MovieDramaFantasy

The abusive professional relationship between Luis, an intransigent painter, and Ágata, his traumatized model, takes an unexpected turn when she finds a mysterious self-portrait of him…

Frank Stein

Frank Stein · 1972

Filmed before his feature-length Arrebato, Zulueta’s Frank Stein is a personal reading of horror cult classic Frankenstein (1931), filmed directly from its television broadcast and reducing Whale’s original to only three packed and dizzying minutes, during which the film's sensitive monster evolves at an unusual rate.

Kinkón

Kinkón · 1971

MovieAdventureFantasy

Kinkón (1971), a silent adaptation of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s 1933 classic, King Kong. Zulueta re-filmed a television broadcast of the original, and through creative subtraction and manipulation of camera speed, condensed the original’s feature length to an intensified seven minutes. The cathode-ray flicker and flattening that results from the re-filming defamiliarises the original, but its classical continuity mode of address continues to operate on the viewer, and the increase in velocity makes mesmerisingly urgent the dramatic plot of the original. —Senses of Cinema

Aquarium

Aquarium · 1975

The 1975 Super-8 short Aquarium is Zulueta’s first available incursion into the psychodrama—in which the filmmaker dramatises a disturbed state of consciousness—in which appear lyrical passages of the kind that will be made by the fictional experimental filmmaker played by Will More in Zulueta’s 1980 feature Arrebato. (Senses of Cinema)

Mi Ego Está en Babia

Mi Ego Está en Babia · 1975

Mi Ego Está en Babia

MovieComedyFantasy

Will More arrives by boat to a "genuine Mediterranean island" and is welcome by "thousands of Chinese girls" who take him to their place and tell him a story about his "ego", which he must immediately look for. Thus he gets to a "wonderful palace", where he meets a hermaphrodite odalisque who materializes the image of his other self and offers him a new and even more fantastic story.

Ginebra en los infiernos

Ginebra en los infiernos · 1970

Ginebra en los infiernos

Iván and Ginebra meet in a purely casual way and soon discover that there is a powerful attraction between them; but the constant presence of Ivan's roommate, Toby, a strange boxer who is afraid to step into the ring, forces them to redefine their relationship.

Run, Blancanieves, Run

Run, Blancanieves, Run · 1967

Run, Blancanieves, Run

Since her earliest childhood, Blancanieves has lived with seven men who have cared for and protected her, but this has never been enough for her, because she wants to be a movie star, a dream that disturbs her guardians.

Marruecos Souvenir

Marruecos Souvenir · 1972

Marruecos Souvenir

Recovered Zulueta short.

La taquillera

La taquillera · 1978

Recovered Zulueta short.

More Like This

Couldn't load this row right now.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter